We present another proof of the sharp inequality for Paneitz operator on the standard three sphere, in the spirit of subcritical approximation for the classical Yamabe problem. To solve the perturbed problem, we use a symmetrization process which only works for extremal functions. This gives a new example of symmetrization for higher order variational problems.
In this paper we shall give an analytic proof of the fact that the Liouville energy on a topological two sphere is bounded from below. Our proof does not rely on the uniformization theorem and the Onofri inequality, thus it is essentially needed in the alternative proof of the uniformization theorem via the Calabi flow. Such an analytic approach also sheds light on how to obtain the boundedness for E_1 energy in the study of general Kahler manifolds.
In this paper we consider a fourth order equation involving the critical Sobolev exponent on a bounded and smooth domain in $R^6$. Using theory of critical points at infinity, we give some topological conditions on a given function defined on a domain to ensure some existence results.
We use a Lagrangian perspective to show the limiting absorption principle on Riemannian scattering, i.e. asymptotically conic, spaces, and their generalizations. More precisely we show that, for non-zero spectral parameter, the `on spectrum, as well as the `off-spectrum, spectral family is Fredholm in function spaces which encode the Lagrangian regularity of generalizations of `outgoing spherical waves of scattering theory, and indeed this persists in the `physical half plane.
Let $(mathcal{M},g_0)$ be a compact Riemannian manifold-with-boundary. We present a new proof of the classical Gaffneys inequality for differential forms in boundary value spaces over $mathcal{M}$, via the variational approach `{a} la Kozono--Yanagisawa [$L^r$-variational inequality for vector fields and the Helmholtz--Weyl decomposition in bounded domains, Indiana Univ. Math. J. 58 (2009), 1853--1920] combined with global computations based on the Bochners technique.
We present a new proof of the sphere covering inequality in the spirit of comparison geometry, and as a byproduct we find another sphere covering inequality which can be viewed as the dual of the original one. We also prove sphere covering inequalities on surfaces satisfying general isoperimetric inequalities, and discuss their applications to elliptic equations with exponential nonlinearities in dimension two. The approach in this paper extends, improves, and unifies several inequalities about solutions of elliptic equations with exponential nonlinearities.