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We study Kazdan-Warner equations on a connected finite graph via the method of the degree theory. Firstly, we prove that all solutions to the Kazdan-Warner equation with nonzero prescribed function are uniformly bounded and the Brouwer degree is well defined. Secondly, we compute the Brouwer degree case by case. As consequences, we give new proofs of some known existence results for the Kazdan-Warner equation on a connected finite graph.
Let $G=(V,E)$ be a finite connected graph, and let $kappa: Vrightarrow mathbb{R}$ be a function such that $int_Vkappa dmu<0$. We consider the following Kazdan-Warner equation on $G$:[Delta u+kappa-K_lambda e^{2u}=0,] where $K_lambda=K+lambda$ and $K: Vrightarrow mathbb{R}$ is a non-constant function satisfying $max_{xin V}K(x)=0$ and $lambdain mathbb{R}$. By a variational method, we prove that there exists a $lambda^*>0$ such that when $lambdain(-infty,lambda^*]$ the above equation has solutions, and has no solution when $lambdageq lambda^ast$. In particular, it has only one solution if $lambdaleq 0$; at least two distinct solutions if $0<lambda<lambda^*$; at least one solution if $lambda=lambda^ast$. This result complements earlier work of Grigoryan-Lin-Yang cite{GLY16}, and is viewed as a discrete analog of that of Ding-Liu cite{DL95} and Yang-Zhu cite{YZ19} on manifolds.
In this paper, we study the following Kazdan-Warner equation with sign-changing prescribed function $h$ begin{align*} -Delta u=8pileft(frac{he^{u}}{int_{Sigma}he^{u}}-1right) end{align*} on a closed Riemann surface whose area is equal to one. The solutions are the critical points of the functional $J_{8pi}$ which is defined by begin{align*} J_{8pi}(u)=frac{1}{16pi}int_{Sigma}| abla u|^2+int_{Sigma}u-lnleft|int_{Sigma}he^{u}right|,quad uin H^1left(Sigmaright). end{align*} We prove the existence of minimizer of $J_{8pi}$ by assuming begin{equation*} Delta ln h^++8pi-2K>0 end{equation*}at each maximum point of $2ln h^++A$, where $K$ is the Gaussian curvature, $h^+$ is the positive part of $h$ and $A$ is the regular part of the Green function. This generalizes the existence result of Ding, Jost, Li and Wang [Asian J. Math. 1(1997), 230-248] to the sign-changing prescribed function case. We are also interested in the blow-up behavior of a sequence $u_{varepsilon}$ of critical points of $J_{8pi-varepsilon}$ with $int_{Sigma}he^{u_{varepsilon}}=1, limlimits_{varepsilonsearrow 0}J_{8pi-varepsilon}left(u_{varepsilon}right)<infty$ and obtain the following identity during the blow-up process begin{equation*} -varepsilon=frac{16pi}{(8pi-varepsilon)h(p_varepsilon)}left[Delta ln h(p_varepsilon)+8pi-2K(p_varepsilon)right]lambda_{varepsilon}e^{-lambda_{varepsilon}}+Oleft(e^{-lambda_{varepsilon}}right), end{equation*}where $p_varepsilon$ and $lambda_varepsilon$ are the maximum point and maximum value of $u_varepsilon$, respectively. Moreover, $p_{varepsilon}$ converges to the blow-up point which is a critical point of the function $2ln h^{+}+A$.
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