Minimizers of a weighted maximum of the Gauss curvature

DOI10.1007/S10455-011-9278-9MaRDI QIDQ663454zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roger Moser, Hartmut Schwetlick

Publication date 15 February 2012

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://opus.bath.ac.uk/23412/1/Moser_AGAG_2011.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

Conformal geometryGauss curvatureVariational problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

Review text

Let \(\Sigma\) be an open subset of a Riemann surface \(S\) with smooth boundary and compact closure; assume none of the connected components of \(\Sigma\) is a torus. The authors consider Riemannian metrics \(g=e^{2u}g_0\) which are conformal to the original metric. Fix \(\kappa\in C^\infty(\bar\Sigma)\) with \(\inf_\Sigma\kappa>0\). The authors examine minimizers of the functional \[ E_\infty(u)=\text{ess\;sup}_\Sigma{|K|\over\kappa} \] where \[ K=e^{-2u}(-\Delta_0u+K_0) \] is the new Gauss curvature; an area constraint is imposed and the minimizer shown to exist. The result follows once bubble prevention is ensured.

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