TITLE

# Prescribed Q-curvature problem on closed 4-Riemannian manifolds in the null case

AUTHOR(S)
Yuxin Ge; Xingwang Xu
PUB. DATE
April 2008
SOURCE
Calculus of Variations & Partial Differential Equations;Apr2008, Vol. 31 Issue 4, p549
SOURCE TYPE
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
The main objective of this short note is to give a sufficient condition for a non constant function k to be Q curvature candidate for a conformal metric on a closed Riemannian manifold with the null Q-curvature. In contrast to the prescribed scalar curvature on the two-dimensional flat tori, the condition we provided is not necessary as some examples show.
ACCESSION #
28769632

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