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Let \\((M^n,g)\\) be a smooth, closed \\(n\\)-dimensional Riemannian manifold. The Weyl-Schouten tensor of \\(g\\) is defined by   \\[ A=\\frac{1}{n-2}\\left (\\text{Ric}-\\frac{1}{2(n-1)}Rg\\right ), \\]   where Ric denotes the Ricci tensor and \\(R\\) is the scalar curvature.  The transformation of \\(A\\) under conformal deformation \\(g\\to g_u=e^{-2u}g\\) leads to the equation   \\[ \\sigma_k^{1/k}(g_u^{-1}A_u)=f(x), \\]   where \\(\\sigma_k:\\mathbb R^n\\to\\mathbb R^n\\) denotes the elementary symmetric polynomial of degree \\(k\\), \\(A_u\\) denotes the Weyl-Schouten tensor of \\(g_u\\), \\(\\sigma_k^{1/k}(g_u^{-1}A_u)\\) means \\(\\sigma_k\\) applied to the eigenvalues of the (1,1)-tensor \\(g_u^{-1}A_u\\) obtained by ``raising an index'' of \\(A_u\\). 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