Towering phenomena for the Yamabe equation on symmetric manifolds (Q2014392)

Given a compact smooth connected Riemannian manifold \((M,g)\) without boundary of dimension \(N\geq7,\) assume it is symmetric with respect to a point \(\xi_0\) with non-vanishing Weyl's tensor. The authors consider the linear perturbation of the Yamabe problem \[ -\mathcal{L}_gu+\varepsilon u=u^\frac{N+2}{N-2}\quad \text{on}\;M, \] where \(\mathcal{L}_g=\Delta_g-\frac{N-2}{4(N-1)}R_g\) is the conformal Laplacian, \(\Delta_g=\text{div}_g\nabla\) is the Laplace-Beltrami operator, and \(R_g\) stands for the scalar curvature of the manifold. Arguing on finite dimensional Ljapunov-Schmidt reduction and suitable approximation of solutions, the authors prove that for any each \(k\in\mathbb{N}\) there exists \(\varepsilon_k>0\) such that for all \(\varepsilon\in(0,\varepsilon_k)\) the above problem has a symmetric solution \(u_{\varepsilon_k}\) that is a superposition of \(k\) positive bubbles centered at \(\xi_0\) as \(\varepsilon\to0.\) In particular, \(\xi_0\) is a towering blow-up point.