Conformal geometry, contact geometry, and the calculus of variations

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-00-10127-5zbMath0990.53035MaRDI QIDQ1976048

Jeff A. Viaclovsky

Publication date: 22 August 2002

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointsYamabe problemcompact Riemannian manifoldcurvature equationslocally conformally flat spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Existence theories for free problems in two or more independent variables (49J10) Critical metrics (58E11) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

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