Second eigenvalue of the Yamabe operator and applications

DOI10.1007/S00526-013-0651-3MaRDI QIDQ2510355zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 1 August 2014

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.1268

zbMATH Keywords

compact Riemannian manifoldnodal solutionsnonlinear elliptic equationscalar curvaturesecond eigenvalueYamabe operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Nonlinear eigenvalue problems and nonlinear spectral theory for PDEs (35P30) PDEs on manifolds (35R01) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

Abstract: Let $(M,g)$ be a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension $ngeq3$. In this paper, we give various properties of the eigenvalues of the Yamabe operator $L_g$. In particular, we show how the second eigenvalue of $L_g$ is related to the existence of nodal solutions of the equation $L_{g}u=epsilon|u{|}^{N-2}u$, where $epsilon=+1,0,$ or -1.

Review text

The main goal of this paper is to study some properties of the eigenvalues of the Yamabe operator \(L_gu= c_n\Delta_g u+ S_g u\) and geometrical and topological properties of compact Riemannian manifolds of dimension \(n\geq 3\). Here \(c_n= 4(n-1)/(n-2)\), \(S_g\) is the scalar curvature and \(\Delta_g\) is the Laplace-Beltrami operator. In particular, the interaction between the second eigenvalue and the existence of nodal solutions of the nonlinear equation \(L_g u= \varepsilon|u|^{n-2}u\), with \(\varepsilon= 1,0,-1\), is treated in detail.

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