Existence results for some problems on Riemannian manifolds (Q785713): Difference between revisions

The paper under review deals with existence results for Yamabe-type equations with subcritical perturbations set on a compact \(d\)-dimensional, \(d\ge 3\), Riemannian manifold without boundary. The authors propose a different approach, new in the framework of elliptic equations on manifolds, which in particular does not use the celebrated \textit{P. L. Lions}' concentration-compactness principle [Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 1, No. 1, 145--201 (1985; Zbl 0704.49005)]. As it is well known, the latter represents a major tool in the study of critical elliptic equations and has been intensively used in the literature in many different contexts. The first existence result in this paper (Theorem 2) relies upon direct minimization techniques on small balls of the energy space. This method was inspired by a paper of \textit{J. Chabrowski} [Differ. Integral Equ. 8, No. 4, 705--716 (1995; Zbl 0814.35033)]. It has been previously used in the literature for studying classical quasilinear \(p\)-Laplacian equations involving critical nonlinearities. Another existence result is obtained as an application of a version of the mountain pass theorem without the Palais-Smale condition, due to \textit{H. Brézis} and \textit{L. Nirenberg} [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 36, 437--477 (1983; Zbl 0541.35029)]. Restricting to the unit sphere \(S^d\) via the stereographic projection, some parametrized Emden-Fowler equations in the Euclidean case are solved.