Compactness of solutions to some geometric fourth-order equations

DOI10.1515/CRELLE.2006.038zbMath1098.53032arXivmath/0410140MaRDI QIDQ5472318

Andrea Malchiodi

Publication date: 9 June 2006

Published in: Journal fur die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0410140

zbMATH Keywords

conformal metricPaneitz operator\(Q\) curvaturebubbling analysisminimax argument

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Variational methods for higher-order elliptic equations (35J35)

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