The scalar curvature problem on the four dimensional half sphere

DOI10.1007/S00526-004-0285-6MaRDI QIDQ1773095zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mohamed Ben Ayed, Khalil O. El Mehdi, Mohameden Ould Ahmedou

Publication date 25 April 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0303039, http://cds.cern.ch/record/747018

zbMATH Keywords

critical points at infinityhalf sphere \(S^+_4\)prescribed scalar curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Variational methods involving nonlinear operators (47J30) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05)

Abstract: In this paper, we consider the problem of prescribing the scalar curvature under minimal boundary conditions on the standard four dimensional half sphere. We provide an Euler-Hopf type criterion for a given function to be a scalar curvature to a metric conformal to the standard one. Our proof involves the study of critical points at infinity of the associated variational problem.

Review text

Sur une variété compacte \(V_n\) \((n\geq 3)\) possédant une métrique \(g\) de courbure scalaire \(R= 1\), il existe \(V\) un ``voisinage de 1 tel que tout \(k\in V\) est la courbure scalaire \(\widetilde R\) d'une métrique \(\widetilde g\) conforme à \(g\) \((\widetilde g\in [g])\), ceci pour toute variété sauf la sphère: ce sont les fameuses conditions nécessaires de Kazdan et Warner. Pour les variétés compactes à bord P. Cherrin a imaginé le problème suivant: trouver \(\widetilde g\in[g]\), le bord ayant une courbure moyenne prescrite \(\widetilde H\), telle que \(\widetilde R= k\) donnée sur \(V\). Des phenomènes, analogues à ceux relatés plus haut, se produisent sur la demi-sphère. Sur \(S_3\) dans l'article de Bahri-Coron une nouvelle méthode était exposée et une condition suffisante établie. Les AA. étudient le problème de Cherrin dans le cas de la demi-sphère \(S^+_4\) avec \(\widetilde H\equiv 0\) et \(K\in C^3\) une fonction positive n'ayant que des points critiques non dégénérés \(a\) où \(\Delta K(a)+ 12 K(a) H(a,a)\neq 0\) (\(H(x,y)\) est la partie régulière de la fonction de Green du laplacien conforme). De plus on suppose qu'un point \(a\in\partial S^+_4\) où \(\nabla_TK(a)= 0\) alors \({\partial K\over\partial\nu}(a)< 0\). La dimension 4 est très particulière, phénomènes d'interaction et de self-interaction se superposent, d'où la prescrite de \(H(x,y)\), par rapport à l'article de Bahri-Loron. La démonstration se fait par l'absurde: on suppose que le problème n'a pas de solution. On exprime la caractéristique d'Euler-Poincaré en fonction des indices de Morse de \(K\) en certaines points critiques, ceux où une certaine matrice faite avec \(\Delta K\), \(K\) et \(H\) est definie positive. Presupposons pour hypothèse que l'espression trouvée pour \(X\) n'est pas égale à 1, on aboutit à une contraction. La démonstration passe par l'étude des points critiques à l'infini de la fonctionnelle du problème (la méthode de Bahri-Coron).

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