Bifurcation of periodic solutions to the singular Yamabe problem on spheres

DOI10.4310/JDG/1463404117MaRDI QIDQ726783zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Renato G. Bettiol, Bianca Santoro, Paolo Piccione

Publication date 14 July 2016

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7071, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1463404117

zbMATH Keywords

periodic solutionssingular Yamabe problemspheres

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

Abstract: We obtain uncountably many periodic solutions to the singular Yamabe problem on a round sphere, that blow up along a great circle. These are (complete) constant scalar curvature metrics on the complement of $S^1$ inside $S^m$, $mgeq5$, that are conformal to the round (incomplete) metric and "periodic" in the sense of being invariant under a discrete group of conformal transformations. These solutions come from bifurcating branches of constant scalar curvature metrics on compact quotients of $S^{m}setminus{S}^{1}cong{S}^{m-2}imes{H}^2$.

Review text

The paper deals with the ``Singular Yamabe Problem: If \((M,g)\) is a compact Riemannian manifold and \(\Lambda \subset M\) a closed subset, find on \(M \setminus \Lambda\) a complete metric \(g'\) conformal to \(g\) and with constant scalar curvature. A valuable review of the literature on this subject is provided. A particularly interesting case is when the manifold \(M\) is the unit round sphere \(S^m\). Actually, the paper is aiming at obtaining, by means of bifurcation techniques, many families of new periodic solutions in the case when \(\Lambda = S^1\). In fact, the authors prove that ``there exist uncountably many \textit{branches} of periodic solutions to the singular Yamabe problem on \(S^m \setminus S^1\), for all \(m \geq 5\), having (constant) scalar curvature arbitrarily close to \((m-4) (m-1)\).

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