scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1829466

Publication date 14 November 2002

Maximum principle prescribing scalar curvature Yamabe invariants

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)

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Let \((M,g)\) be a complete Riemannian manifold of dimension \(\geq 3\). Under what conditions exists a smooth positive function \(\rho\), such that \((M, {\rho}g)\) possesses a constant scalar curvature? This is the so-called Yamabe problem. Let \(s\) denote the scalar curvature of \((M, g)\) and \(c_n=\frac{(n-2)}{4(n-1)}\), let \(u\) be a smooth positive function on \(M\) and \(\tilde{g}=u^{\frac{4}{n-2}}.g\), if \(\frac{\tilde{s}}{c_n}\) is the scalar curvature of \((M, \tilde{g})\), then \[ -\triangle u+c_n.s.u=\tilde{s}.u^{\frac{n+2}{n-2}}. \tag{1} \] Under certain conditions, the author proves that, if \((M, g)\) is non-compact, then equation (1) has a smooth positive solution \(U\) with \(\tilde{s}=0\). The method of the proof is using a minimization sequence of solutions to get a non-negative solution of (1), showing that such solution non-identically equals to zero, and then proving that it is positive by maximal principle. Under other conditions and using similar method, the authors obtain a smooth positive solution \(u\) of (1) with the scalar curvature \(\tilde{s}=-1.\)

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