Large conformal metrics with prescribed scalar curvature

Abstract: Let

(M, g)

be an

n -

dimensional compact Riemannian manifold. Let

h

be a smooth function on

M

and assume that it has a critical point

x i i n M

such that

h (x i) = 0

and which satisfies a suitable flatness assumption. We are interested in finding conformal metrics

g_{l} a m b d a = u_{l} a m b d a^{f} r a c 4 n - 2 g

, with

u > 0

, whose scalar curvature is the prescribed function

h_{l} a m b d a = l a m b d a^{2} + h

, where

l a m b d a

is a small parameter. In the positive case, i.e. when the scalar curvature

R_{g}

is strictly positive, we find a family of bubbling metrics

g_{l} a m b d a

, where

u_{l} a m b d a

blows-up at the point

x i

and approaches zero far from

x i

as

l a m b d a

goes to zero. In the general case, if in addition we assume that there exists a non-degenerate conformal metric

g_{0} = u_{0}^{f} r a c 4 n - 2 g

, with

u_{0} > 0

, whose scalar curvature is equal to

h

, then there exists a bounded family of conformal metrics

g_{0, l a m b d a} = u_{0, l a m b d a}^{f} r a c 4 n - 2 g

, with

u_{0, l a m b d a} > 0

, which satisfies

u_{0, l a m b d a} o u_{0}

uniformly as

l a m b d a o 0

. Here, we build a second family of bubbling metrics

g_{l} a m b d a

, where

u_{l} a m b d a

blows-up at the point

x i

and approaches

u_{0}

far from

x i

as

l a m b d a

goes to zero. In particular, this shows that this problem admits more than one solution.

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