Conformal metrics with prescribed scalar and mean curvature

DOI10.1515/CRELLE-2022-0026MaRDI QIDQ2164380zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sergio Cruz-Blázquez, Andrea Malchiodi, David Ruiz

Publication date 15 August 2022

Published in Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04185

zbMATH Keywords

conformal transformationsmean curvatureprescribing curvaturescalar curvaturescaling invariant function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conformal structures on manifolds (53C18) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

Abstract: We consider the case with boundary of the classical Kazdan-Warner problem in dimension greater or equal than three, i.e. the prescription of scalar and boundary mean curvatures via conformal deformations of the metric. We deal in particular with negative scalar curvature and boundary mean curvature of arbitrary sign, which to our knowledge has not been treated in the literature. We employ a variational approach to prove new existence results, especially in three dimensions. One of the principal issues for this problem is to obtain compactness properties, due to the fact that bubbling may occur with profiles of hyperbolic balls or horospheres, and hence one may lose either pointwise estimates on the conformal factor or the total conformal volume. We can sometimes prevent them using integral estimates, Pohozaev identities and domain-variations of different types.

Review text

Let \((M,\partial M,g)\) be an \(n\)-dimensional Riemannian manifold with boundary. Given smooth functions \(K\) on \(M\) and \(H\) on \(\partial M\), the authors give sufficient conditions for the existence of a conformally equivalent metric on \(M\) whose scalar curvature is \(K\) and boundary mean curvature is \(H\). The problem reduces to finding positive solutions of a boundary value problem. The existence of such solutions is proved by finding critical points of an energy functional.

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