Infinitely many solutions for the prescribed scalar curvature problem on \(\mathbb S^N\) (Q971797)

Consider the standard \(N\)-sphere \((S^N, g_0)\), \(N \geq 3\). Let \( \tilde{K}\) be a fixed smooth function. The prescribed curvature problem asks if one can find a conformally invariant metric \(g\) such that the scalar curvature becomes \(\tilde{K}\). The problem consists in solving the following equation on \(S^N\): \[ - \Delta_{S^N} u + \frac{N(N-2)}{2} u + \tilde{K} u^{\frac{N+2}{N-2}}=0 \;\text{on} \;S^N, \qquad u >0. \] In this paper, the authors consider the case when \( \tilde{K}\) is rotationally symmetric, \( K=K(r), r=|y|\). The main result can be stated as follows. Assume there is a constant \(r_0>0\), such that \[ K(r)= K(r_0)- c_0|r-r_0|^m+ O(|r-r_0|^{m+\theta}),\quad r\in (r_0-\delta, r_0+\delta), \] where \(c_0>0\), \(\theta>0\) are some constants, and the constant \(m\) satisfies \(m\in [2,N-2)\). Suppose that \(N\geq 5\). If \(K(r)\) satisfies the above conditions, then the prescribed curvature problem has infinitely many non-radial solutions, whose energy can be made arbitrarily large.