The Yamabe equation on manifolds of bounded geometry (Q2449409)

In this paper the author studies the Yamabe problem on open manifolds of bounded geometry. His main result is Theorem 1. Let \((M^n,g)\) be a connected Riemannian manifold of bounded geometry with \(\overline{Q(M,g)}>Q(M,g)\). Moreover, let \(\mu(M,g)>0\). Then, there is a smooth positive solution \(v\in H^2_1\cap L^\infty\) of the Euler-Lagrange equation \(L_gv=Q(M,g)v^{p_{\mathrm{crit}}-1}\) with \(\| v\|_{p_{\mathrm{crit}}}=1\). In this theorem, that a Riemannian manifold \((M,g)\) is of bounded geometry means that \(g\) is complete and the curvature tensor and all its covariant derivatives are bounded. \(\overline{Q(M,g)}\) denotes the Yamabe invariant at infinity, and \(\mu(M,g)\) the infimum of the \(L^2\)-spectrum of the conformal Laplacian w.r.t. the complete metric \(g\), and \(p_{\mathrm{crit}}=2n/(n-2)\). The author uses weighted Sobolev embeddings and considers a weighted Yamabe problem. The methods developed in this paper were adapted to prove similar results for spinorial Yamabe-type problems for the Dirac operator; see [\textit{N. Große}, Commun. Partial Differ. Equations 37, No. 1--3, 58--76 (2012; Zbl 1239.53068)].