Existence and conformal deformation of metrics with prescribed Gaussian and scalar curvatures

DOI10.2307/1970993zbMath0297.53020MaRDI QIDQ1214170

Publication date: 1975

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/4d8f5c181a14c1fc2ea96466e5296e453c05d306

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35J60: Nonlinear elliptic equations

58B20: Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds

53C20: Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching

58J99: Partial differential equations on manifolds; differential operators

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