Sign-changing blow-up for the Yamabe equation at the lowest energy level

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2022.108769arXiv2206.08770MaRDI QIDQ6402371FDOQ6402371

Authors: Bruno Premoselli, Jérôme Vétois 

Publication date: 17 June 2022

Abstract: We investigate the blow-up behavior of sequences of sign-changing solutions for the Yamabe equation on a Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ of positive Yamabe type. For each dimension $nge11$, we describe the value of the minimal energy threshold at which blow-up occurs. In dimensions $11lenle24$, where the set of positive solutions is known to be compact, we show that the set of sign-changing solutions is not compact and that blow-up already occurs at the lowest possible energy level. We prove this result by constructing a smooth, non-locally conformally flat metric on space forms $mathbb{S}^n/Gamma$, $Gammaeq1$, whose Yamabe equation admits a family of sign-changing blowing-up solutions. As a counterpart of this result, we also prove a sharp compactness result for sign-changing solutions at the lowest energy level, in small dimensions or under strong geometric assumptions.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semilinear elliptic equations (35J61) Blow-up in context of PDEs (35B44) PDEs on manifolds (35R01) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05) Bifurcation theory for PDEs on manifolds (58J55)

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