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Clustering phenomena in low dimensions for a boundary Yamabe problem

Analysis of PDEs 2022-11-16 v1

Abstract

We consider the classical geometric problem of prescribing the scalar and boundary mean curvatures via conformal deformation of the metric on a nn-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold. We deal with the case of negative scalar curvature and positive boundary mean curvature. It is known that if n=3n=3 all the blow-up points are isolated and simple. In this work we prove that, for a linear perturbation, this is not true anymore in low dimensions 4n74\leq n\leq 7. In particular, we construct a solution with a clustering blow-up boundary point (i.e. non-isolated), which is non-umbilic and is a local minimizer of the norm of the trace-free second fundamental form of the boundary.

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@article{arxiv.2211.08219,
  title  = {Clustering phenomena in low dimensions for a boundary Yamabe problem},
  author = {Sergio Cruz-Blázquez and Angela Pistoia and Giusi Vaira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.08219},
  year   = {2022}
}

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55 pages

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