An ODE reduction method for the semi-Riemannian Yamabe problem on space forms

DOI10.1016/J.NA.2021.112342MaRDI QIDQ2033036zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Juan Carlos Fernández, Oscar Palmas

Publication date 14 June 2021

Published in Nonlinear Analysis. Theory, Methods \& Applications. Series A: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07041

zbMATH Keywords

blowing-up solutionsgeneralized Emden-Fowler equationsisoparametric functionsnodal solutionssemi-Riemannian isoparametric hypersurfacessemi-Riemannian Yamabe problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singular nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B16) Symmetries, invariants, etc. in context of PDEs (35B06) Entire solutions to PDEs (35B08) Critical exponents in context of PDEs (35B33) Blow-up in context of PDEs (35B44) Conformal structures on manifolds (53C18) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Global submanifolds (53C40) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45)

Abstract: We consider the semi-Riemannian Yamabe type equations of the form [ -square u + lambda u = mu vert uvert^{p-1}uquad ext{ on }M ] where $M$ is either the semi-Euclidean space or the pseudosphere of dimension $mgeq3$, $square$ is the semi-Riemannian Laplacian in $M$, $lambdageq0$, $muinmathbbRsmallsetminus0$ and $p>1$. Using semi-Riemannian isoparametric functions on $M$, we reduce the PDE into a generalized Emden-Fowler ODE of the form [ w+q(r)w'+lambda w = muvert wvert^{p-1}wquad ext{ on } I, ] where $IsubsetmathbbR$ is $[0,infty)$ or $[0,pi]$, $q(r)$ blows-up at $0$ and $w$ is subject to the natural initial conditions $w^{\prime }(0)=0$ in the first case and $w^{\prime }(0)=w^{\prime }(pi)=0$ in the second. We prove the existence of blowing-up and globally defined solutions to this problem, both positive and sign-changing, inducing solutions to the semi-Riemannian Yamabe type problem with the same qualitative properties, with level and critical sets described in terms of semi-Riemannian isoparametric hypersurfaces and focal varieties. In particular, we prove the existence of sign-changing blowing-up solutions to the semi-Riemannian Yamabe problem in the pseudosphere having a prescribed number of nodal domains.

Review text

The authors prove the existence of blowing-up and globally defined solutions of Yamabe-type partial differential equations on semi-Euclidean space and on the pseudosphere of dimension at least 3. In the proof they use isoparametric functions which allow the reduction to a generalized Emden-Fowler ordinary differential equation.

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