TY - JOUR
T1 - On Conformal Metrics with Constant $Q$-Curvature
JO - Analysis in Theory and Applications
VL - 2
SP - 117
EP - 143
PY - 2019
DA - 2019/04
SN - 35
DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/ata.OA-0012
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/ata/13110.html
KW - Geometric PDEs, variational methods, min-max schemes.
AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">We review some recent results in the literature concerning existence of conformal metrics with constant $Q$-curvature. The problem is rather similar to the classical Yamabe problem: however it is characterized by a fourth-order operator that might lack in general a maximum principle. For several years existence of geometrically admissible solutions was known only in particular cases. Recently, there has been instead progress in this direction for some general classes of conformal metrics.</p>