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Non-uniqueness of conformal metrics with constant Q-curvature

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Date: 
11/12/2017 - 15:00 - 16:00
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P4 118
Orateur: 
BETTIOL Renato
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Université de Pennsylvanie
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États-Unis
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The problem of finding (complete) metrics with constant Q-curvature in a prescribed conformal class is a famous fourth-order cousin of the Yamabe problem. In this talk, I will provide some background on Q-curvature and discuss how several non-uniqueness results for the Yamabe problem can be transplanted to this context. However, special emphasis will be given to multiplicity phenomena for constant Q-curvature that have no analogues for the Yamabe problem, confirming expectations raised by the lack of a maximum principle.