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September  2019, 18(5): 2757-2764. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2019123

## Higher order conformally invariant equations in ${\mathbb R}^3$ with prescribed volume

 Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, 1984 Mathematics Road, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z2, Canada

Received  October 2018 Revised  January 2019 Published  April 2019

Fund Project: The first author is supported by SNSF Grant No. P2BSP2-172064. The second author is partially supported by NSERC.

In this paper we study the following conformally invariant poly-harmonic equation
 $\Delta^mu = -u^\frac{3+2m}{3-2m}\quad\text{in }\mathbb{R}^3,\quad u>0,$
with
 $m = 2,3$
. We prove the existence of positive smooth radial solutions with prescribed volume
 $\int_{\mathbb{R}^3} u^\frac{6}{3-2m}dx$
. We show that the set of all possible values of the volume is a bounded interval
 $(0,\Lambda^*]$
for
 $m = 2$
, and it is
 $(0,\infty)$
for
 $m = 3$
. This is in sharp contrast to
 $m = 1$
case in which the volume
 $\int_{\mathbb{R}^3} u^\frac{6}{3-2m}dx$
is a fixed value.
Citation: Ali Hyder, Juncheng Wei. Higher order conformally invariant equations in ${\mathbb R}^3$ with prescribed volume. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2019, 18 (5) : 2757-2764. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2019123
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