On a fourth order equation in 3-D

Xingwang Xu; Paul C. Yang

doi:10.1051/cocv:2002023

On a fourth order equation in 3-D

Xingwang Xu, Paul C. Yang

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In this article we study the positivity of the 4-th order Paneitz operator for closed 3-manifolds. We prove that the connected sum of two such 3-manifold retains the same positivity property. We also solve the analogue of the Yamabe equation for such a manifold.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1029-1042
Number of pages	14
Journal	ESAIM - Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations
Volume	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv:2002023
State	Published - Jun 2002

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Control and Systems Engineering
Control and Optimization
Computational Mathematics

Keywords

Conformal invariance
Connected sum
Paneitz operator
Sobolev inequality

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On a fourth order equation in 3-D

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