TY - JOUR
T1 - On Harnack inequalities and singularities of admissible metrics in the Yamabe problem
AU - Trudinger, Neil S.
AU - Wang, Xu Jia
PY - 2009/7
Y1 - 2009/7
N2 - In this paper we study the local behaviour of admissible metrics in the k-Yamabe problem on compact Riemannian manifolds (M, g 0) of dimension n ≥3. For n/2 < k < n, we prove a sharp Harnack inequality for admissible metrics when (M, g 0) is not conformally equivalent to the unit sphere S n and that the set of all such metrics is compact. When (M, g 0) is the unit sphere we prove there is a unique admissible metric with singularity. As a consequence we prove an existence theorem for equations of Yamabe type, thereby recovering as a special case, a recent result of Gursky and Viaclovsky on the solvability of the k-Yamabe problem for k > n/2.
AB - In this paper we study the local behaviour of admissible metrics in the k-Yamabe problem on compact Riemannian manifolds (M, g 0) of dimension n ≥3. For n/2 < k < n, we prove a sharp Harnack inequality for admissible metrics when (M, g 0) is not conformally equivalent to the unit sphere S n and that the set of all such metrics is compact. When (M, g 0) is the unit sphere we prove there is a unique admissible metric with singularity. As a consequence we prove an existence theorem for equations of Yamabe type, thereby recovering as a special case, a recent result of Gursky and Viaclovsky on the solvability of the k-Yamabe problem for k > n/2.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00526-008-0207-0
DO - 10.1007/s00526-008-0207-0
M3 - Article
SN - 0944-2669
VL - 35
SP - 317
EP - 338
JO - Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations
JF - Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations
IS - 3
ER -