On the local Nirenberg problem for the $Q$-curvatures
Abstract
We prove in this article that the local image of each conformal $Q$-curvature operator of arbitrary order on the sphere admits no scalar constraint. However, we prove that identities of Kazdan--Warner type hold for its graph.
- Publication:
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arXiv Mathematics e-prints
- Pub Date:
- January 2006
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:math/0601732
- Bibcode:
- 2006math......1732D
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Differential Geometry;
- Mathematics - Analysis of PDEs;
- 58J05;
- 35J60
- E-Print:
- 10 pages