A nonlocal \mathbf Q-curvature flow on a class of closed manifolds of dimension \mathbf{n \geq 5}

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Authors Xuezhang Chen

Publication date 3 January 2015

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Maximum principles in context of PDEs (35B50) Higher-order elliptic equations (35J30) Integro-partial differential equations (45K05) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05)

Abstract: In this paper, we employ a nonlocal $Q$-curvature flow inspired by Gursky-Malchiodi's work cite{gur_mal} to solve the prescribed $Q$-curvature problem on a class of closed manifolds: For $ngeq5$, let $(M^n,g_0)$ be a smooth closed manifold, which is not conformally diffeomorphic to the standard sphere, satisfying either Gursky-Malchiodi's semipositivity hypotheses: scalar curvature $R_{g_0}>0$ and $Q_{g_0}geq0$ not identically zero or Hang-Yang's: Yamabe constant $Y(g_0)>0$, Paneitz-Sobolev constant $q(g_0)>0$ and $Q_{g_0}geq0$ not identically zero. Let $f$ be a smooth positive function on $M^n$ and $x_0$ be some maximum point of $f$. Suppose either (a) $n=5,6,7$ or $(M^n,g_0)$ is locally conformally flat; or (b) $ngeq8$, Weyl tensor at $x_0$ is nonzero. In addition, assume all partial derivatives of $f$ vanish at $x_0$ up to order $n-4$, then there exists a conformal metric $g$ of $g_0$ with its $Q$-curvature $Q_g$ equal to $f$. This result generalizes Escobar-Schoen's work [Invent. Math. 1986] on prescribed scalar curvature problem on any locally conformally flat manifolds of positive scalar curvature.

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