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Large singular solutions for conformal $Q$-curvature equations on $\mathbb{S}^n$

Analysis of PDEs 2020-09-28 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we study the existence of positive functions KC1(Sn)K \in C^1(\mathbb{S}^n) such that the conformal QQ-curvature equation \begin{equation}\label{001} P_m (v) =K v^{\frac{n+2m}{n-2m}}~~~~~~ {on} ~ \mathbb{S}^n \{equation} has a singular positive solution vv whose singular set is a single point, where mm is an integer satisfying 1m<n/21 \leq m < n/2 and PmP_m is the intertwining operator of order 2m2m. More specifically, we show that when n2m+4n\geq 2m+4, every positive function in C1(Sn)C^1(\mathbb{S}^n) can be approximated in the C1(Sn)C^1(\mathbb{S}^n) norm by a positive function KC1(Sn)K\in C^1(\mathbb{S}^n) such that the conformal QQ-curvature equation has a singular positive solution whose singular set is a single point. Moreover, such a solution can be constructed to be arbitrarily large near its singularity. This is in contrast to the well-known results of Lin \cite{Lin1998} and Wei-Xu \cite{Wei1999} which show that the conformal QQ-curvature equation, with KK identically a positive constant on Sn\mathbb{S}^n, n>2mn > 2m, does not exist a singular positive solution whose singular set is a single point.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2009.02069,
  title  = {Large singular solutions for conformal $Q$-curvature equations on $\mathbb{S}^n$},
  author = {Xusheng Du and Hui Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.02069},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

24 pages; fixed some typos

R2 v1 2026-06-23T18:18:45.347Z