Metrics of constant curvature on a Riemann surface with two corners on the boundary

DOI10.1016/J.ANIHPC.2007.11.001MaRDI QIDQ1012355zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Guofang Wang, Chunqin Zhou, Jürgen Jost

Publication date 16 April 2009

Published in Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3162, https://eudml.org/doc/78850

zbMATH Keywords

conical singularitycornerGauss curvaturegeodesic curvatureLiouville equationRiemannian surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

Abstract: We use PDE methods as developed for the Liouville equation to study the existence of conformal metrics with prescribed singularities on surfaces with boundary, the boundary condition being constant geodesic curvature. Our first result shows that a disk with two corners admits a conformal metric with constant Gauss curvature and constant geodesic curvature on its boundary if and only if the two corners have the same angle. In fact, we can classify all the solutions in a more general situation, that of the 2-sphere cut by two planes.

Review text

The paper is a study of the problem of existence of a conformal metric with constant Gaussian curvature on a Riemannian surface with prescribed singularities. Starting from the result that a smooth Riemannian metric on a two-dimensional surface is pointwise conformal to a metric of constant curvature, the authors extend the results on smooth surfaces to the case of a surface with singularities. The case of closed surfaces with conical singularities was studied previously. In this paper the authors consider the case of surfaces with boundary. In particular, on a surface with boundary with prescribed singularities they study the question of existence of a conformal metric of constant Gaussian curvature on the interior and constant geodesic curvature on the boundary with respect to the number, order and angle of the conical singularities. As the existence of conformal metrics is connected to the Liouville equation, the authors apply methods from partial differential equations used to determine the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the Liouville equation near the singularities. The authors prove that on the unit disk with two corners on the boundary there exists a conformal metric with constant Gaussian curvature and constant geodesic curvature on the boundary if and only if the two corners have the same angle.

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