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Compactness of solutions to some geometric fourth-order equations

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Published/Copyright: May 17, 2006
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Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik
From the journal Volume 2006 Issue 594

Abstract

We prove compactness of solutions to some fourth order equations with exponential nonlinearities on four manifolds. The proof is based on a refined bubbling analysis, for which the main estimates are given in integral form. Our result is used in a subsequent paper to find critical points (via minimax arguments) of some geometric functional, which give rise to conformal metrics of constant Q-curvature. As a byproduct of our method, we also obtain compactness of such metrics.

Received: 2005-01-10
Revised: 2005-04-08
Published Online: 2006-05-17
Published in Print: 2006-05-01

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