Q-curvature flow for GJMS operators with non-trivial kernel

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2012.07.007MaRDI QIDQ694774zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ali Fardoun, Rachid Regbaoui

Publication date 13 December 2012

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3035

zbMATH Keywords

variational method\(Q\)-curvaturegeometric PDE's

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher-order parabolic equations (35K25) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

Abstract: We investigate the prescribed Q-curvature flow for GJMS operators with non-trivial kernel on compact manifolds of even dimension. When the total Q-curvature is negative, we identify a conformally invariant condition on the nodal domains of functions in the kernel of the GJMS operator, allowing us to prove the global existence and the convergence of the flow to a metric which is conformal to the initial one, and having a prescribed Q-curvature. If the total Q-curvature is positive, we show that the flow blows up in finite time.

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