On Harnack inequalities and singularities of admissible metrics in the Yamabe problem

DOI10.1007/S00526-008-0207-0MaRDI QIDQ1016544zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Neil S. Trudinger, Xu-Jia Wang

Publication date 6 May 2009

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0509341, http://hdl.handle.net/1885/31987

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05)

Abstract: In this paper we study the local behaviour of admissible metrics in the k-Yamabe problem on compact Riemannian manifolds $(M,g_0)$ of dimension $nge3$. For $n/2<k<n$, we prove a sharp Harnack inequality for admissible metrics when $(M,g_0)$ is not conformally equivalent to the unit sphere $S^n$ and that the set of all such metrics is compact. When $(M,g_0)$ is the unit sphere we prove there is a unique admissible metric with singularity. As a consequence we prove an existence theorem for equations of Yamabe type, thereby recovering a recent result of Gursky and Viaclovski on the solvability of the $k$-Yamabe problem for $k>n/2$.

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