Weak and smooth solutions for a fractional Yamabe flow: The case of general compact and locally conformally flat manifolds

DOI10.1080/03605302.2017.1377230zbMATH Open1379.35168arXiv1702.05221OpenAlexW2602312256MaRDI QIDQ4598331FDOQ4598331

Juan Luis Vázquez, Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Yannick Sire

Publication date: 20 December 2017

Published in: Communications in Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: As a counterpart of the classical Yamabe problem, a fractional Yamabe flow has been introduced by Jin and Xiong (2014) on the sphere. Here we pursue its study in the context of general compact smooth manifolds with positive fractional curvature. First, we prove that the flow is locally well posed in the weak sense on any compact manifold. If the manifold is locally conformally flat with positive Yamabe invariant, we also prove that the flow is smooth and converges to a constant scalar curvature metric. We provide different proofs using extension properties introduced by Chang and Gonz'alez (2011) for the conformally covariant fractional order operators.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05221

zbMATH Keywords

fast diffusion equationfractional curvaturefractional Yamabe flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear initial, boundary and initial-boundary value problems for nonlinear parabolic equations (35K61) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Rigidity results (53C24)

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• Conformal metrics with prescribed fractional scalar curvature on conformal infinities with positive fractional Yamabe constants

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