Abstract
We prove that the Paneitz energy on the standard three-sphere S3 is bounded from below and extremal metrics must be conformally equivalent to the standard metric.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 211-223 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | ESAIM - Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 2004 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Control and Optimization
- Computational Mathematics
Keywords
- Extremal metric
- Paneitz operator
- Symmetrization