An optimal boundary control approach to the Cherrier-Escobar problem
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| author | Ndiaye, Cheikh Birahim Saiid, Abdul-Malik |
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| contents | We study an optimal boundary control problem associated to the boundary obstacle problem for the couple conformal Laplacian and conformal Robin operator on n-dimensional compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary and with n\geq 3. When the Cherrier-Escobar invariant of the compact Riemannian manifold with boundary is positive, we show that the optimal controls are equal to their associated optimal states. Moreover, we show that the optimal controls are minimizers of the Cherrier-Escobar functional, and hence induce conformal metrics with zero scalar curvature and constant mean curvature. Furthermore, we show the existence of an optimal control under an Aubin type assumption. For the standard unit ball, we derive a sharp Sobolev trace type inequality and prove that the standard bubbles-namely conformal factor of metrics conformal to the standard one with zero scalar curvature and constant mean curvature -- are the only optimal controls and hence equal to their associated optimal states. |
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| spellingShingle | An optimal boundary control approach to the Cherrier-Escobar problem Ndiaye, Cheikh Birahim Saiid, Abdul-Malik Analysis of PDEs We study an optimal boundary control problem associated to the boundary obstacle problem for the couple conformal Laplacian and conformal Robin operator on n-dimensional compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary and with n\geq 3. When the Cherrier-Escobar invariant of the compact Riemannian manifold with boundary is positive, we show that the optimal controls are equal to their associated optimal states. Moreover, we show that the optimal controls are minimizers of the Cherrier-Escobar functional, and hence induce conformal metrics with zero scalar curvature and constant mean curvature. Furthermore, we show the existence of an optimal control under an Aubin type assumption. For the standard unit ball, we derive a sharp Sobolev trace type inequality and prove that the standard bubbles-namely conformal factor of metrics conformal to the standard one with zero scalar curvature and constant mean curvature -- are the only optimal controls and hence equal to their associated optimal states. |
| title | An optimal boundary control approach to the Cherrier-Escobar problem |
| topic | Analysis of PDEs |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12232 |