Q-curvature prescription; forbidden functions and the GJMS null space

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-09-10111-9MaRDI QIDQ3552138zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Rod Gover

Publication date 13 April 2010

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.5604

zbMATH Keywords

curvature prescriptionconformal differential geometryQ-curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

Abstract: On an even conformal manifold $(M,c)$, such that the critical GJMS operator has non-trivial kernel, we identify and discuss the role of a finite dimensional vector space $N(Q)$ of functions determined by the conformal structure. Using these we describe an infinite dimensional class of functions that cannot be the Q-curvature $Q^g$ for any $g$ in $c$. If certain functions arise in $N(Q)$ then $Q^g$ cannot be constant for any $g$ in $c$.

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