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

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNS295zbMATH Open1321.58022arXiv1208.3040OpenAlexW2045337228MaRDI 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)

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.

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

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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)

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