Variational status of a class of fully nonlinear curvature prescription problems

DOI10.1007/s00526-007-0141-6zbMath1147.53029arXivmath/0610773OpenAlexW1979067412WikidataQ126014260 ScholiaQ126014260MaRDI QIDQ926300

A. Rod Gover, Thomas P. Branson

Publication date: 27 May 2008

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610773

zbMATH Keywords

Yamabe problemEuler-Lagrange equationcurvature prescriptionSchouten tensorQ-curvatureconformal normal scaleconformally variationalRiemannian conformal class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

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