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Nonexistence of entire positive solutions for conformal Hessian quotient inequalities

 1 School of Mathematics and Shing-Tung Yau Center of Southeast University, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China 2 College of Mathematics and Statistics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China 3 Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics, Hubei Key Laboratory of Applied Mathematics, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China

* Corresponding author: Feida Jiang

Received  April 2021 Revised  July 2021 Early access September 2021

Fund Project: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11771214 and No.11971157)

In this paper, we consider the nonexistence problem for conformal Hessian quotient inequalities in $\mathbb{R}^n$. We prove the nonexistence results of entire positive $k$-admissible solution to a conformal Hessian quotient inequality, and entire $(k, k')$-admissible solution pair to a system of Hessian quotient inequalities, respectively. We use the contradiction method combining with the integration by parts, suitable choices of test functions, Taylor's expansion and Maclaurin's inequality for Hessian quotient operators.

Citation: Feida Jiang, Xi Chen, Juhua Shi. Nonexistence of entire positive solutions for conformal Hessian quotient inequalities. Electronic Research Archive, doi: 10.3934/era.2021072
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