On the local Nirenberg problem for the Q-curvatures

DOI10.2140/PJM.2007.231.293zbMATH Open1151.53028arXivmath/0601732OpenAlexW2139265729MaRDI QIDQ952972FDOQ952972

Frédéric Robert, Philippe P. Delanoë

Publication date: 14 November 2008

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove in this article that the local image of each conformal $Q$-curvature operator of arbitrary order on the sphere admits no scalar constraint. However, we prove that identities of Kazdan--Warner type hold for its graph.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0601732

zbMATH Keywords

Nirenberg problemFredholm theoryconformal \(Q\)-curvatureKazdan-Warner identitieslocal imagePaneitz-Branson operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

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• \(Q\)-curvature flow for GJMS operators with non-trivial kernel
• The first GJMS invariant
• On the local solvability of the Nirenberg problem on \(\mathbb S^2\)
• On the local solvability of elliptic equations on compact manifolds
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• Admissible $Q-$curvatures under isometries for the conformal GJMS operators
• Q-curvature prescription; forbidden functions and the GJMS null space
• Existence and asymptotics for solutions of a non-local Q-curvature equation in dimension three
• On the prescribed \(Q\)-curvature problem in Riemannian manifolds
• Conformally variational Riemannian invariants
• Universal principles for Kazdan-Warner and Pohozaev-Schoen type identities

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