Existence results for the Einstein-scalar field Lichnerowicz equations on compact Riemannian manifolds in the positive case

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Authors Quốc Anh Ngô, Xingwang Xu

Publication date 7 November 2014

Published in Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics. Academia Sinica. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://web.math.sinica.edu.tw/bulletin/archives_articlecontent16.jsp?bid=MjAxNDMwNw==

zbMATH Keywords

critical exponentEinstein-scalar field equationLichnerowicz equationnegative exponentpositive Yamabe-scalar field invariantsign-changing nonlinearity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

Review text

Let \((M,g)\) be a smooth compact Riemannian manifold without boundary of dimension \(n\geq 3,\) and let \(f, h>0\) and \(a\geq 0\) be smooth functions on \(M\) with \(\int_M a d\text{vol}_g> 0.\) The authors prove two results involving the following partial differential equation which arises from the Hamiltonian constraint equation for the Einstein-scalar field system in general relativity NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \Delta_gu+hu=fu^{2^*-1}+\dfrac{a}{u^{2^*+1}}, NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(\Delta_g\) is the Laplace--Beltrami operator on \((M,g)\) and \(2^*=2n/(n-2).\)NEWLINENEWLINEThe first result shows that if \(\int_M a d\text{vol}_g\) is small enough, then the equation admits one positive smooth solution, while in the second one the condition on \(\int_M a d\text{vol}_g\) is relaxed to \(\sup_M f.\) As a by-product, the authors obtain a complete characterization of the existence of solutions in the case when \(\sup_M f\leq0.\)

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