Extremal metrics of zeta function determinants on 4-manifolds

DOI10.2307/2118613zbMath0842.58011OpenAlexW2086729477MaRDI QIDQ1895828

Publication date: 4 August 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2118613

zbMATH Keywords

extremal metrics elliptic variational problems 4-dimensional conformal geometry sharp Sobolev-Moser inequalities zeta function determinants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems (46E35) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Invariance and symmetry properties for PDEs on manifolds (58J70) Harmonic analysis in several variables (42B99) Critical metrics (58E11) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

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