Yamabe type equations with a sign-changing nonlinearity, and the prescribed curvature problem

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Autori principali: Bianchini, Bruno, Mari, Luciano, Rigoli, Marco
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author Bianchini, Bruno
Mari, Luciano
Rigoli, Marco
author_facet Bianchini, Bruno
Mari, Luciano
Rigoli, Marco
contents In this paper, we investigate the prescribed scalar curvature problem on a non-compact Riemannian manifold $(M, \langle \, , \, \rangle)$, namely the existence of a conformal deformation of the metric $\langle \, , \, \rangle$ realizing a given function $\widetilde s(x)$ as its scalar curvature. In particular, the work focuses on the case when $\widetilde s(x)$ changes sign. Our main achievement are two new existence results requiring minimal assumptions on the underlying manifold, and ensuring a control on the stretching factor of the conformal deformation in such a way that the conformally deformed metric be quasi-isometric to the original one. The topological-geometrical requirements we need are all encoded in the spectral properties of the standard and conformal Laplacians of $M$. Our techniques can be extended to investigate the existence of entire positive solutions of quasilinear equations of the type $$ Δ_{p} u + a(x)u^{p-1} - b(x)u^σ= 0 $$ where $Δ_p$ is the $p$-Laplacian, $σ>p-1>0$, $a,b \in L^\infty_{\mathrm{loc}}(M)$ and $b$ changes sign, and in the process of collecting the material for the proof of our theorems, we have the opportunity to give some new insight on the subcriticality theory for the Schrödinger type operator $$ Q_V' \ : \ φ\longmapsto -Δ_p φ- a(x)|φ|^{p-2}φ. $$ In particular, we prove sharp Hardy-type inequalities in some geometrically relevant cases, notably for minimal submanifolds of the hyperbolic space.
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spellingShingle Yamabe type equations with a sign-changing nonlinearity, and the prescribed curvature problem
Bianchini, Bruno
Mari, Luciano
Rigoli, Marco
Differential Geometry
Analysis of PDEs
Spectral Theory
In this paper, we investigate the prescribed scalar curvature problem on a non-compact Riemannian manifold $(M, \langle \, , \, \rangle)$, namely the existence of a conformal deformation of the metric $\langle \, , \, \rangle$ realizing a given function $\widetilde s(x)$ as its scalar curvature. In particular, the work focuses on the case when $\widetilde s(x)$ changes sign. Our main achievement are two new existence results requiring minimal assumptions on the underlying manifold, and ensuring a control on the stretching factor of the conformal deformation in such a way that the conformally deformed metric be quasi-isometric to the original one. The topological-geometrical requirements we need are all encoded in the spectral properties of the standard and conformal Laplacians of $M$. Our techniques can be extended to investigate the existence of entire positive solutions of quasilinear equations of the type $$ Δ_{p} u + a(x)u^{p-1} - b(x)u^σ= 0 $$ where $Δ_p$ is the $p$-Laplacian, $σ>p-1>0$, $a,b \in L^\infty_{\mathrm{loc}}(M)$ and $b$ changes sign, and in the process of collecting the material for the proof of our theorems, we have the opportunity to give some new insight on the subcriticality theory for the Schrödinger type operator $$ Q_V' \ : \ φ\longmapsto -Δ_p φ- a(x)|φ|^{p-2}φ. $$ In particular, we prove sharp Hardy-type inequalities in some geometrically relevant cases, notably for minimal submanifolds of the hyperbolic space.
title Yamabe type equations with a sign-changing nonlinearity, and the prescribed curvature problem
topic Differential Geometry
Analysis of PDEs
Spectral Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.3118