"Bubbling" of the prescribed curvature flow on the torus

  • Michael Struwe

    ETH Zürich, Switzerland
"Bubbling" of the prescribed curvature flow on the torus cover

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Abstract

By a classical result of Kazdan–Warner, for any smooth sign-changing function with negative mean on the torus there exists a conformal metric with Gauss curvature , which can be obtained from a minimizer of Dirichlet's integral in a suitably chosen class of functions. As shown by Galimberti, these minimizers exhibit "bubbling" in a certain limit regime. Here we sharpen Galimberti's result by showing that all resulting "bubbles" are spherical. Moreover, we prove that analogous "bubbling" occurs in the prescribed curvature flow.

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Michael Struwe, "Bubbling" of the prescribed curvature flow on the torus. J. Eur. Math. Soc. 22 (2020), no. 10, pp. 3223–3262

DOI 10.4171/JEMS/985