ON THE HIGHER ORDER CONFORMAL COVARIANT OPERATORS ON THE SPHERE

Abstract: We will show that in the conformal class of the standard metric

g_{S^{n}}

on

S^{n}

, the scaling invariant functional

(m u_{g} (S^{n}))^{f r a c 2 m - n n} i n t_{S^{n}} Q_{2 m, g} d m u_{g}

maximizes at

g_{S^{n}}

when

n

is odd and

m = f r a c n + 1 2

or

f r a c n + 3 2

. For

n

odd and

m g e q f r a c n + 5 2

,

g_{S^{n}}

is not stable and the functional has no local maximizer. Here

Q_{2 m, g}

is the

2 m

th order

Q

-curvature.

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