Conformal invariants from nodal sets. I: Negative eigenvalues and curvature prescription. With an appendix by Rod Gover and Andrea Malchiodi

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNS295zbMATH Open1321.58022OpenAlexW2045337228MaRDI QIDQ2929680FDOQ2929680

Authors Yaiza Canzani, Rod Gover, Dmitry Jakobson, Raphaël Ponge

Publication date 14 November 2014

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3040

zbMATH Keywords

conformal invariantsnodal setYamabe operatorPaneitz operatorGJMS operatorsconformally covariant differential operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Spectral theory; eigenvalue problems on manifolds (58C40) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

Abstract: In this paper, we study conformal invariants that arise from nodal sets and negative eigenvalues of conformally covariant operators; more specifically, the GJMS operators, which include the Yamabe and Paneitz operators. We give several applications to curvature prescription problems. We establish a version in conformal geometry of Courant's Nodal Domain Theorem. We also show that on any manifold of dimension $ngeq3$, there exist many metrics for which our invariants are nontrivial. We prove that the Yamabe operator can have an arbitrarily large number of negative eigenvalues on any manifold of dimension $ngeq3$. We obtain similar results for some higher order GJMS operators on some Einstein and Heisenberg manifolds. We describe the invariants arising from the Yamabe and Paneitz operators associated to left-invariant metrics on Heisenberg manifolds. Finally, in the appendix, the 2nd named author and Andrea Malchiodi study the $Q$-curvature prescription problems for non-critical $Q$-curvatures.

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