The asymptotically flat scalar-flat Yamabe problem with boundary

DOI10.1007/S12220-017-9760-0MaRDI QIDQ2411208zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephen McCormick

Publication date 20 October 2017

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.05318

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotically flat manifoldscalar curvatureYamabe problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Critical exponents in context of PDEs (35B33) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05)

Abstract: We consider two cases of the asymptotically flat scalar-flat Yamabe problem on a non-compact manifold with boundary, in dimension $ngeq3$. First, following arguments of Cantor and Brill in the compact case, we show that given an asymptotically flat metric $g$, there is a conformally equivalent asymptotically flat scalar-flat metric that agrees with $g$ on the boundary. We then replace the metric boundary condition with a condition on the mean curvature: Given a function $f$ on the boundary that is not too large, we show that there is an asymptotically flat scalar-flat metric, conformally equivalent to $g$ whose boundary mean curvature is given by $f$. The latter case involves solving an elliptic PDE with critical exponent using the method of sub- and supersolutions. Both results require the usual assumption that the Sobolev quotient is positive.

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