Some existence results for the Webster scalar curvature problem in presence of symmetry

DOI10.1007/S10231-004-0101-0MaRDI QIDQ2505613zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Veronica Felli, F. Uguzzoni

Publication date 27 September 2006

Published in Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0212143, http://hdl.handle.net/10281/2854

zbMATH Keywords

Heisenberg groupsubelliptic equationsWebster curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subelliptic equations (35H20) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Analysis on other specific Lie groups (43A80) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

Abstract: We prove some existence results for the Webster scalar curvature problem on the Heisenberg group and on the unit sphere of ${mathbbC}^{n+1}$, under the assumption of some natural symmetries of the prescribed curvatures. We use variational and perturbation techniques.

Review text

In this paper, the authors prove existence results for the equation \[ -\Delta_{H^n}u(x)= K(x)u(x)^{Q^*-1}, \quad x \in H^n, \] where \(\Delta_{H^n}\) is the sub-Laplacian on the Heisenberg group \(H^n\) and \(Q^*\) is the critical exponent for the embedding of the Folland-Stein Sobolev space in \(L^{Q^*}(H^n)\). Their results provide the existence of solutions for the Webster scalar curvature problem on \(H^n\) and on the unit sphere \(S^{2n+1}\). They assume that \(K\) is cylindrically symmetric. More precisely, they consider the cases where \(K(z,t) = k(|z|,t)\), and the case where \(K\) is close to a constant, that is \(K(z,t) = 1+ rk(|z|,t)\) for \(|r|\) sufficiently small. The results rely on variational techniques, on a concentration-compactness lemma, and on the finite dimensional reduction method due to Ambrosetti and Badiale.

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