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Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Jie Xu

In this paper, we study the existence of complete Yamabe metric with zero scalar curvature on an n-dimensional complete Riemannian manifold $(M,g_0)$, $n\geq 3$. Under suitable conditions about the initial metric, we show that there is a…

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We prove global existence of Yamabe flows on non-compact manifolds $M$ of dimension $m\geq3$ under the assumption that the initial metric $g_0=u_0g_M$ is conformally equivalent to a complete background metric $g_M$ of bounded, non-positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Mario B. Schulz

We give sufficient and "almost" necessary conditions for the prescribed scalar curvature problems within the conformal class of a Riemannian metric $ g $ for both closed manifolds and compact manifolds with boundary, including the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Jie Xu

In this paper we prove that, given a compact four dimensional smooth Riemannian manifold (M,g) with smooth boundary there exists a metric conformal to g with constant T-curvature, zero Q-curvature and zero mean curvature under generic and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-08-07 Cheikh Birahim Ndiaye

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

On a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, we study the set of conformal metrics of negative constant scalar curvature in the interior and positive constant mean curvature on the boundary. Working in the case of positive Yamabe…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Sergio Almaraz , Shaodong Wang

We study the Yamabe problem on open manifolds of bounded geometry and show that under suitable assumptions there exist Yamabe metrics, i.e. conformal metrics of constant scalar curvature. For that, we use weighted Sobolev embeddings.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Nadine Große

Let $M$ be a compact connected surface with boundary. We prove that the signal condition given by the Gauss-Bonnet theorem is necessary and sufficient for a given smooth function $f$ on $\partial M$ (resp. on $M$) to be geodesic curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Tiarlos Cruz , Feliciano Vitório

Let $\Omega$ be a domain on the unit $n$-sphere $ \mathbb S^n$ and $\mathring{g}$ the standard metric of $\mathbb S^n$, $n\ge 3$. We show that there exists a conformal metric $g$ with vanishing scalar curvature $R(g)=0$ such that $(\Omega,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-10 Aram Karakhanyan

The Han-Li conjecture states that: Let $(M,g_0)$ be an $n$-dimensional $(n\geq 3)$ smooth compact Riemannian manifold with boundary having positive (generalized) Yamabe constant and $c$ be any real number, then there exists a conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-25 Xuezhang Chen , Yuping Ruan , Liming Sun

The Yamabe problem in compact closed Riemannian manifolds is concerned with finding a metric with constant scalar curvature in the conformal class of a given metric. This problem was solved by the combined work of Yamabe, Trudinger, Aubin,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-31 Jhovanny Muñoz Posso

Let (M,g) be a compact Riemannian manifold with dimension n > 2. The Yamabe problem is to find a metric with constant scalar curvature in the conformal class of g, by minimizing the total scalar curvature. The proof was completed in 1984.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dominic Joyce

We show that in an arbitrarily fixed conformal class on a closed manifold, the upper bound condition of the total scalar curvature is $C^{0}$-closed if its Yamabe constant is nonpositive. Moreover, we show that if a conformal class on a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Shota Hamanaka

We show that sets of conformal data on closed manifolds with the metric in the positive or zero Yamabe class, and with the gradient of the mean curvature function sufficiently small, are mapped to solutions of the Einstein constraint…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 James Isenberg , Adam Clausen , Paul T Allen

This article uses the iterative schemes and perturbation methods to completely solve the Han-Li conjecture, i.e. the general boundary Yamabe problem with prescribed constant scalar curvature and constant mean curvature on compact manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Jie Xu

Let $(M,g)$ be a noncompact complete Bach-flat manifold with positive Yamabe constant. We prove that $(M,g)$ is flat if $(M, g)$ has zero scalar curvature and sufficiently small $L_{2}$ bound of curvature tensor. When $(M, g)$ has…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-19 Seongtag Kim

We study a conformal flow for compact Riemannian manifolds of dimension greater than two with boundary. Convergence to a scalar-flat metric with constant mean curvature on the boundary is established in dimensions up to seven, and in any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-07 Sergio Almaraz

In 1992, motivated by Riemann mapping theorem, Escobar considered a version of Yamabe problem on manifolds of dimension n greater than 2 with boundary. The problem consists in finding a conformal metric such that the scalar curvature is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-04-09 Szu-yu Sophie Chen

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