Lack of compactness in conformal metrics with \(L^{d/2}\) curvature (Q1329630)

The second author [Compactness of conformal metrics with integral bounds on curvature, Preprint, 1991], extending results of \textit{S.-Y. A. Chang} and \textit{P. C. P. Yang} [J. Am. Math. Soc. 3, No. 1, 117-145 (1990; Zbl 0701.58056)] and \textit{B. Osgood, R. Phillips} and \textit{P. Sarnak} [J. Funct. Anal. 80, No. 1, 212-234 (1988; Zbl 0653.53021)], proved that when \(d \geq 4\) the metrics on a \(d\)-dimensional compact manifold in a fixed conformal class satisfying a uniform \(L^{(d/2) + \varepsilon}\) bound on curvature and a bound on volume are compact in a \(C^ \alpha\)-topology. One can ask whether metrics on a \(d\)-dimensional compact manifold in a fixed conformal class satisfying a uniform \(L^{(d/2)}\) bound on curvature and a bound on volume are compact in the \(C^ 0\) topology. The authors show that this is always false. Thus the curvature assumption of recent compactness results for conformal metrics is sharp.