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January 2018, 17(1): 209-230. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018013

Infinitely many blowing-up solutions for Yamabe-type problems on manifolds with boundary

McGill University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0B9, Canada

Received April 2017 Revised June 2017 Published September 2017

Fund Project: The author is supported by the China Scholarship Council

We consider the Yamabe-type problem

$\begin{equation*} \begin{cases} Δ_g u+fu=0 \ in\ M\\ \frac{\partial u}{\partial ν}+hu=u^{\frac{n}{n-2}}\ on\ \partial M \end{cases}\end{equation*} $

when

$(M,g)$

is the standard half sphere of dimensions

$n≥ 3$

. We establish existence results of positive blowing-up solutions with unbounded energy to this problem for all dimensions

$n≥ 3$

Keywords: Blow-up solutions, Yamabe-type problem, half space, Neumann problem, half sphere.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary:35J25, 35J65;Secondary:53A30.

Citation: Shaodong Wang. Infinitely many blowing-up solutions for Yamabe-type problems on manifolds with boundary. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2018, 17 (1) : 209-230. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018013

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[3]	S. Almaraz, Blow-up phenomena for scalar-flat metrics on manifolds with boundary, J. Differential Equations, 251 (2011), 1813-1840. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2011.04.013.
[4]	S. Brendle, Blow-up phenomena for the Yamabe equation, J. Amer. Math. Soc., 21 (2008), 951-979. doi: 10.1090/S0894-0347-07-00575-9.
[5]	S. Brendle and S. Chen, An existence theorem for the Yamabe problem on manifolds with boundary, J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS), 16 (2014), 991-1016. doi: 10.4171/JEMS/453.
[6]	S. Brendle and F. Marques, Blow-up phenomena for the Yamabe equation. Ⅱ, J. Differential Geom., 81 (2009), 225-250.
[7]	S. Chen, Conformal deformation to scalar flat metrics with constant mean curvature on the boundary in higher dimensions, preprint, arXiv: 0912.1302.
[8]	W. Chen, J. Wei and S. Yan, Infinitely many solutions for the Schrödinger equations in $\mathbb{R}^N$ with critical growth, J. Differential Equations, 252 (2012), 2425-2447. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2011.09.032.
[9]	P. Cherrier, Problémes de Neumann non linéaires sur les variétés riemanniennes, J. Funct. Anal., 57 (1984), 154-206. doi: 10.1016/0022-1236(84)90094-6.
[10]	O. Druet, From one bubble to several bubbles: the low-dimensional case, J. Differential Geom., 63 (2003), 399-473.
[11]	O. Druet, Compactness for Yamabe metrics in low dimensions, Int. Math. Res. Not., (2004), 1143-1191. doi: 10.1155/S1073792804133278.
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[16]	P. Esposito, A. Pistoia and J. Vétois, The effect of linear perturbations on the Yamabe problem, Math. Ann., 358 (2014), 511-560. doi: 10.1007/s00208-013-0971-9.
[17]	V. Felli and M. Ahmedou, Compactness results in conformal deformations of Riemannian metrics on manifolds with boundaries, Math. Z., 244 (2003), 175-210. doi: 10.1007/s00209-002-0486-7.
[18]	V. Felli and M. Ahmedou, A geometric equation with critical nonlinearity on the boundary, Pacific J. Math., 218 (2005), 75-99. doi: 10.2140/pjm.2005.218.75.
[19]	M. Ghimenti, A. Micheletti and A. Pistoia, On Yamabe-type problems on Riemannian manifolds with boundary, Pacific J. Math., 284 (2016), 79-102. doi: 10.2140/pjm.2016.284.79.
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