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February  2016, 36(2): 971-980. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016.36.971

## Topological degree method for the rotationally symmetric $L_p$-Minkowski problem

 1 Department of Applied Mathematics, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China 2 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084

Received  October 2014 Revised  February 2015 Published  August 2015

Consider the existence of rotationally symmetric solutions to the $L_p$-Minkowski problem for $p=-n-1$. Recently a sufficient condition was obtained for the existence via the variational method and a blow-up analysis in [16]. In this paper we use a topological degree method to prove the same existence and show the result holds under a similar complementary sufficient condition. Moreover, by this degree method, we obtain the existence result in a perturbation case.
Citation: Jian Lu, Huaiyu Jian. Topological degree method for the rotationally symmetric $L_p$-Minkowski problem. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2016, 36 (2) : 971-980. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016.36.971
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