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We use PDE methods as developed for the Liouville equation to study the existence of conformal metrics with prescribed singularities on surfaces with boundary, the boundary condition being constant geodesic curvature. Our first result shows…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-12-20 Juergen Jost , Guofang Wang , Chunqin Zhou

We consider Yamabe-type equations on the Riemannian product of constant curvature metrics on $\textbf{S}^n \times\textbf{ S}^n$, and study solutions which are invariant by the cohomogeneity one diagonal action of $O(n+1)$. We obtain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Jimmy Petean , Héctor Barrantes G

We investigate the properties of a special class of singular solutions for a self-gravitating perfect fluid in general relativity: the singular isothermal sphere. For arbitrary constant equation-of-state parameter $w=p/\rho$, there exist…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-18 Grant N. Remmen

In this paper, we investigate the prescribed scalar curvature problem on a non-compact Riemannian manifold $(M, \langle \, , \, \rangle)$, namely the existence of a conformal deformation of the metric $\langle \, , \, \rangle$ realizing a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Bruno Bianchini , Luciano Mari , Marco Rigoli

A conformal metric $g$ with constant curvature one and finite conical singularities on a compact Riemann surface $\Sigma$ can be thought of as the pullback of the standard metric on the 2-sphere by a multi-valued locally univalent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Qing Chen , Wei Wang , Yingyi Wu , Bin Xu

We show that there are infinitely many pairwise nonhomothetic, complete, periodic metrics with constant scalar curvature that are conformal to the round metric on $S^n\setminus S^k$, where $k < \frac{n-2}{2}$. These metrics are obtained by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-07 João H. Andrade , Jeffrey S. Case , Paolo Piccione , Juncheng Wei

Our primary purpose is to study a class of strongly coupled nonlinear elliptic systems with critical growth in a compact Riemannian manifold with constant scalar curvature. Using a gluing technique and perturbation arguments, we show the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Rayssa Caju , João Marcos do Ó , Almir Silva Santos

The Yamabe problem concerns finding a conformal metric on a given closed Riemannian manifold so that it has constant scalar curvature. This paper concerns mainly a fully nonlinear version of the Yamabe problem and the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aobing Li , YanYan Li

We continue our previous work studying critical exponent semilinear elliptic (and subelliptic) problems which generalize the classical Yamabe problem. In [3] the focus was on metric-measure spaces with an `almost smooth' structure, with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-20 Kazuo Akutagawa , Gilles Carron , Rafe Mazzeo

We classify entire positive singular solutions to a family of critical sixth order equations in the punctured space with a non-removable singularity at the origin. More precisely, we show that when the origin is a non-removable singularity,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-28 João Henrique Andrade , Juncheng Wei

The Gursky-Streets equation are introduced as the geodesic equation of a metric structure in conformal geometry. This geometric structure has played a substantial role in the proof of uniqueness of $\sigma_2$ Yamabe problem in dimension…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-01 Weiyong He , Lu Xu , Mingbo Zhang

Robert Bryant (Theorie des varietes minimales et applications, 1988, 154: 321-347) proved that an isolated singularity of a conformal metric of positive constant curvature on a Riemann surface is a conical one. Using Complex Analysis, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Jin Li , Bin Xu

One way to generalize the boundary Yamabe problem posed by Escobar is to ask if a given metric on a compact manifold with boundary can be conformally deformed to have vanishing $\sigma_k$-curvature in the interior and constant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Jeffrey S. Case , Ana Claudia Moreira , Yi Wang

We consider conformally flat Lipschitz viscosity solutions to the $\sigma_k$-Yamabe equation in the negative cone which admit smooth hypersurface singularities. Under natural regularity assumptions (that are satisfied by solutions to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Jonah A. J. Duncan , Luc Nguyen

If a smooth compact 4-manifold M admits a Kaehler-Einstein metric g of positive scalar curvature, Gursky showed that its conformal class [g] is an absolute minimizer of the Weyl functional among all conformal classes with positive Yamabe…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-14 Claude LeBrun

We introduce the study of isolated singularities for a semilinear equation involving the fractional Laplacian. In conformal geometry, it is equivalent to the study of singular metrics with constant fractional curvature. Our main ideas are:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-15 Azahara DelaTorre , María del Mar González

A discrete conformality for polyhedral metrics on surfaces is introduced in this paper which generalizes earlier work on the subject. It is shown that each polyhedral metric on a surface is discrete conformal to a constant curvature…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-09-18 Xianfeng Gu , Feng Luo , Jian Sun , Tianqi Wu

We establish the existence of infinitely many complete metrics with constant scalar curvature on prescribed conformal classes on certain noncompact product manifolds. These include products of closed manifolds with constant positive scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-21 Renato G. Bettiol , Paolo Piccione

Prescribing $\sigma_k$ curvature equations are fully nonlinear generalizations of the prescribing Gaussian or scalar curvature equations. Given a positive function $K$ to be prescribed on the 4-dimensional round sphere. We obtain asymptotic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-24 S. -Y. Alice Chang , Zheng-Chao Han , Paul Yang

By adapting the test functions introduced by Choi-Daskaspoulos \cite{c-d} and Brendle-Choi-Daskaspoulos \cite{b-c-d} and exploring properties of the $k$-th elementary symmetric functions $\sigma_{k}$ intensively, we show that for any fixed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-25 Shanze Gao , Haizhong Li , Hui Ma