Existence and non existence results for the singular Nirenberg problem

DOI10.1007/S00526-016-0974-YzbMATH Open1338.53009OpenAlexW2962681927MaRDI QIDQ283565FDOQ283565

Authors: Francesca De Marchis, Rafael López-Soriano 

Publication date: 13 May 2016

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

Abstract: In this paper we study the problem, posed by Troyanov, of prescribing the Gaussian curvature under a conformal change of the metric on surfaces with conical singularities. Such geometrical problem can be reduced to the solvability of a nonlinear PDE with exponential type non-linearity admitting a variational structure. In particular, we are concerned with the case where the prescribed function $K$ changes sign. When the surface is the standard sphere, namely for the singular Nirenberg problem, by a min-max approach and a new compactness argument we give sufficient conditions on $K$, concerning mainly the regularity of its nodal line and the topology of its positive nodal region, to be the Gaussian curvature of a conformal metric with assigned conical singularities. Besides, we find a class of functions on $mathbb{S}^2$ which do not verify our conditions and which can not be realized as the Gaussian curvature of any conformal metric with one conical singularity. This shows that our result is somehow sharp.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.08090

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal change of the metricconical singularitiesGaussian curvaturenodal line

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) PDEs on manifolds (35R01) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05)

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