Instability of the Yamabe Equation

Jérôme Vétois
Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
28 May 2012 2-3pm, Eastern Avenue Room 403

Abstract

On a compact Riemannian manifold, we discuss the question of stability (or instability) of solutions to equations with critical Sobolev growth. We prove, in a joint work with Angela Pistoia and Pierpaolo Esposito, a sharp result of instability for solutions to the Yamabe equation.

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