Abstract
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) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1029-1042 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | ESAIM - Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations |
| Volume | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2002 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Control and Optimization
- Computational Mathematics
Keywords
- Conformal invariance
- Connected sum
- Paneitz operator
- Sobolev inequality
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