A construction of constant scalar curvature manifolds with Delaunay-type ends (Q625082)

It was shown by \textit{A. Byde} [Indiana Univ. Math. J. 52, No.~5, 1147--1199 (2003; Zbl 1155.53317)] that it is possible to attach a Delaunay-type end to a compact nondegenerate manifold of positive constant scalar curvature provided it is locally conformally flat in a neighborhood of the attaching point. The resulting manifold is noncompact with the same constant scalar curvature. The aim of this paper is to generalize this result. The author constructs solutions to the singular Yamabe problem under a condition on the Weyl tensor. If the dimension is at most 5, no condition on the Weyl tensor is needed. He uses the gluing method, similar to that developed by Byde, Jleli, Kaabachi, Kapouleas, Mazzeo, Pacard, Pollack and other authors. A rich list of references ends the paper. Description of the paper: In Section 2 some notations used throughout the paper are recalled. The author reviews some results concerning the Delaunay-type solutions, as well as the function spaces on which the linearized operator is defined. Some other results concerning the Poisson operator for the Laplace operator \(\Delta\) defined in \(B_r(0)\backslash\{0\}\subset\mathbb{R}^n\) and in \(\mathbb{R}^n\backslash B_r(0)\) are mentioned. In Section 3, with an assumption on the Weyl tensor and using a fixed point argument, the author constructs a family of constant scalar curvature metrics in a small ball centered at \(p\in M\) with prescribed Dirichlet data, depending on \(n+2\) parameters. Moreover, each element of this family is asymptotically Delaunay. In Section 4, one uses the non-degeneracy of the metric \(g_0\) to find a right inverse for the operator \(L_{g_0}^1\) in a suitable function space. After that, a fixed point argument is used, in order to construct a family of constant scalar curvature metrics in the complement of a small ball centered at \(p\in M\), which also depends on \(n+2\) parameters with prescribed Dirichlet data. Each element of this family is a perturbation of the metric \(g_0\). In Section 5, the results obtained in previous sections are put together to find a solution for the positive singular Yamabe problem with only one singular point. Using a fixed point argument, the author examines suitable choices of the parameter sets on each piece so that the Cauchy data can be made to match up to be \(C^1\) at the boundary of the ball. The ellipticity of the constant scalar curvature equation then immediately implies that the glued solutions are smooth. Finally, in Section 6, the changes needed to be made in order to consider more than one singular point are explained.