On the Paneitz energy on standard three sphere

Paul Yang; Meijun Zhu

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations (2010)

  • Volume: 10, Issue: 2, page 211-223
  • ISSN: 1292-8119

Abstract

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We prove that the Paneitz energy on the standard three-sphere S3 is bounded from below and extremal metrics must be conformally equivalent to the standard metric.

How to cite

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Yang, Paul, and Zhu, Meijun. "On the Paneitz energy on standard three sphere." ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations 10.2 (2010): 211-223. <http://eudml.org/doc/90726>.

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