Sign-changing bubble towers for asymptotically critical elliptic equations on Riemannian manifolds (Q393031)

Let \((M,g)\) be a smooth and compact Riemannian \(n\)-manifold. The paper deals with the equation NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \Delta_gu+hu=|u|^{2^*-2-\varepsilon} NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(\Delta_g=\text{div}_g\nabla\) is the Laplace--Beltrami operator on \(M,\) \(h\in C^1(M),\) \(2^*\) is the critical Sobolev exponent \({{2n}\over{n-2}}\) for the embedding \(H^2_1(M)\) into \(L^2(M)\) and \(\varepsilon\) is a small positive real parameter tending to \(0.\) The authors prove existence of blowing-up families of sign-changing solutions which develop bubble towers at some point where the function \(h\) is greater than the Yamabe potential \({{n-2}\over{4(n-1)}}\text{Scal}_g\) with \(\text{Scal}_g\) being the scalar curvature of \(M.\)