Prescribing Morse scalar curvatures: incompatibility of non existence

DOI10.1016/J.NA.2023.113440MaRDI QIDQ6141045zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Mayer

Publication date 22 January 2024

Published in Nonlinear Analysis. Theory, Methods \& Applications. Series A: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09294

zbMATH Keywords

conformal geometryMorse theorynon compact variational problemsscalar curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Critical points of functionals in context of PDEs (e.g., energy functionals) (35B38) Conformal structures on manifolds (53C18) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

Abstract: Given a closed manifold of positive Yamabe invariant and for instance positive Morse functions upon it, the conformally prescribed scalar curvature problem raises the question, whether or not such functions can by conformally changing the metric be realised as the scalar curvature of this manifold. As we shall quantify depending on the shape and structure of such functions, every lack of a solution for some candidate function leads to existence of energetically uniformly bounded solutions for entire classes of related candidate functions.

Review text

For a closed and smooth Riemannian manifold \(M^n, n\ge 2\), the prescribed scalar curvature problem is concerned with the question of which functions \(K\) on \(M\) can be prescribed as the scalar curvature \(R = R_g\) on \(M\) for some metric \(g\) on \(M\), i.e., the solvability of the equation \(R_g =K\). The main result of this paper shows, that in a certain local sense there exists always at most one combination of critical points of \(K\) with negative Laplacian such that we cannot assure existence of solutions (Proposition 4.2, Theorem 1.5). The proofs combine methods from conformal geometry and critical point theory. Other author's papers directly connected to this topic are [Geom. Flows 4, 51--82 (2019; Zbl 1439.58007); Calc. Var. Partial Differ. Equ. 56, No. 2, Paper No. 24, 41 p. (2017; Zbl 1370.58016); Adv. Calc. Var. 15, No. 2, 151--190 (2022; Zbl 1485.58014); \textit{A. Malchiodi} and \textit{M. Mayer}, J. Differ. Equations 268, No. 5, 2089--2124 (2020; Zbl 1432.53056); Int. Math. Res. Not. 2021, No. 16, 12532--12612 (2021; Zbl 1484.35203); Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 76, No. 2, 406--449 (2023; Zbl 07779766)].

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