Universal principles for Kazdan-Warner and Pohozaev-Schoen type identities

Gover, Rod; Orsted, Bent

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Universal principles for Kazdan-Warner and Pohozaev-Schoen type identities

Date

2013

Authors

Gover, Rod

Orsted, Bent

Publisher

World Scientific Publishing Company

Abstract

The classical Pohozaev identity constrains potential solutions of certain semilinear PDE boundary value problems. The Kazdan-Warner identity is a similar necessary condition important for the Nirenberg problem of conformally prescribing scalar curvature o