The scalar curvature problem on S^n: An approach via Morse theory

DOI10.1007/S005260100110MaRDI QIDQ1614899zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrea Malchiodi

Publication date 10 September 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s005260100110

zbMATH Keywords

partial differential equationsperturbation methodsscalar curvature problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

Review text

In this paper the author proves the existence of positive solutions for the equation \[ -4{n-1 \over n-2 }\Delta u +n(n-1)u = R' u^{{n+2 \over n-2 }} \] on the sphere \(S^n\) (\(n \geq 3\)), where \(\Delta\) denotes the Laplace-Beltrami operator with respect to the standard metric on \(S^n\) and \(R'\) is a small perturbation of a constant. Applying perturbation methods and placing suitable non-degeneracy conditions on the perturbations the author reduces the problem from an infinite-dimensional problem to a finite-dimensional one in order to obtain the existence.

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