Existence of solutions to a class of Kazdan-Warner equations on compact Riemannian surface
Yunyan Yang, Xiaobao Zhu

TL;DR
This paper investigates the existence of solutions to a class of Kazdan-Warner equations on compact Riemannian surfaces, using blow-up analysis to determine conditions for the functional's infimum and solution existence.
Contribution
It provides new criteria for the existence of solutions to Kazdan-Warner equations by analyzing the functional's behavior and employing blow-up analysis techniques.
Findings
If <(), the infimum of the functional is calculated using blow-up analysis.
A sufficient condition for the existence of solutions to the Kazdan-Warner equation is established.
The functional is unbounded below when or >8, indicating no minimizers in these cases.
Abstract
Let be a compact Riemannian surface without boundary and be the first eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator . Let be a positive smooth function on . Define a functional on a function space . If and has no minimizer on , then we calculate the infimum of on by using the method of blow-up analysis. As a consequence, we give a sufficient condition under which a Kazdan-Warner equation has a solution. If , then . If , then for any , there holdsβ¦
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TopicsAdvanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering Β· Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations Β· Numerical methods in inverse problems
Existence of solutions to a class of Kazdan-Warner equations on compact Riemannian surface
Yunyan Yang
Xiaobao Zhu
Department of Mathematics, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, P. R. China
Abstract
Let be a compact Riemannian surface without boundary and be the first eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator . Let be a positive smooth function on . Define a functional
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on a function space . If and has no minimizer on , then we calculate the infimum of on by using the method of blow-up analysis. As a consequence, we give a sufficient condition under which a Kazdan-Warner equation has a solution. If , then . If , then for any , there holds . Moreover, we consider the same problem in the case that is large, where higher order eigenvalues are involved.
keywords:
Kazdan-Warner equation, Blow-up analysis, Trudinger-Moser inequality
MSC:
[2010] 58J05
β β journal: ***
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1 Introduction and main results
Let be a compact Riemannian surface without boundary, be the usual Sobolev space. Define a function space
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Let be a positive smooth function on and be a functional defined by
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where denotes the gradient of and denotes the volume element of . In view of the Trudinger-Moser inequality due to Fontana [7], has a minimizer on for any ; while in the case , the situation becomes subtle. Using a method of blow-up analysis, Ding-Jost-Li-Wang [4] proved that if has no minimizer on , then
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where is a constant, denotes the geodesic distance between and , is a Green function satisfying
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and is the Laplace-Beltrami operator. Moreover, they give a geometric condition under which has a minimizer on . Clearly the minimizer is a solution of a Kazdan-Warner equation [8], namely
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We let be the first eigenvalue of , say
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It follows from the PoincarΓ© inequality that if , then
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defines a Sobolev norm on . In a previous work [15], using the method of blow-up analysis, we proved the following: for any , there holds
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and the supremum is attained. As a consequence of (6), there exists some constant depending only on and such that for all ,
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This improves the Trudinger-Moser inequality of the weak form, namely (7) in the case . We refer the reader to [1, 14, 10, 5, 6, 13, 16, 17, 18] for related works involving the norms .
Our aim in this paper is to achieve an analog of (3). More precisely, we consider functionals
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Obviously, when , reduces to defined as in (2). Our first result reads
Theorem 1**.**
*Let be a compact Riemannian surface without boundary, be a positive smooth function on , and , and be defined as in (1), (5) and (8) respectively. Then we have the following three assertions:
If and has no minimizer in , then there holds*
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where is a constant, denotes the geodesic distance between and , is a Green function satisfying
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* If , then
If , then for any , we have .*
Since the Euler-Lagrange equation of a minimum point of on is
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an application of of Theorem 1 is the following:
Corollary 2**.**
For any , if
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then the Kazdan-Warner equation (10) has a solution .
As in [15], we consider the case that is allowed to be larger than . Precisely, we let be all distinct eigenvalues of , be the eigenfunction space with respect to , namely
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and , . Define
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Now we state an analog of Theorem 1 as follows:
Theorem 3**.**
*Let , , and be as in Theorem 1, be the -th eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator, and be defined as in (13). Then we have the following three assertions:
If and has no minimizer in , then there holds*
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where is a constant, denotes the geodesic distance between and , is a Green function satisfying
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* If , then
If , then for any , we have .*
Similar to Corollary 2, we have the following:
Corollary 4**.**
For any , if
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then the Kazdan-Warner equation (10) has a solution .
We remark that any geometric hypothesis under which (11) or (15) holds would be extremely interesting. When , a geometric condition was given by Ding-Jost-Li-Wang [4]. Generally it is difficult to be obtained possibly because the Green function has at most -regularity for some in presence of .
Now we describe our method. For the proof of and of Theorems 1 and 3, we shall construct suitable function sequences. To prove of Theorems 1 and 3, we use the blow-up scheme proposed by Ding-Jost-Li-Wang [4]. Our analysis is different from that of Ding-Jost-Li-Wang [4] at least in three points: Let be a minimizer of and . One is that before understanding the exact asymptotic behavior of near the blow-up point, we must prove in , where is an appropriate sequence of positive numbers, is fixed, and uniformly in ; The other is that in the process of deriving lower bound of , we estimate the energy on two regions and instead of three regions , and , which simplifies the calculation in [4]; The third is in the final step (test function computation), we construct a sequence of test functions different from that of [4].
Before ending this introduction, we mention several related works also based on the blow-up scheme in [4]. Ni [12] considered the mean field equation with critical parameter in a planar domain. Zhou [19] obtained existence of solution to the mean field equation for the equilibrium turbulence. Liu-Wang [9] studied the equation (4) with an extra drifting term . Mancini [11] proved an Onofri inequality.
Throughout this paper, as , as , and so on. We do not distinguish sequence and subsequence and often denote various constants by the same . The remaining part of this paper is organized as follows: In Section 2, we prove Theorem 1; In Section 3, we give the proof of Theorem 3.
2 Proof of Theorem 1
The proof of and is easy and will be shown first.
2.1 Proof of of Theorem 1
Let be fixed and be the eigenfunction space defined as in (12). Take . Obviously we have
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and thus
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Since , there exists and such that
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It follows from (16) and (17) that for any ,
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Hence as and the desired result follows immediately.
2.2 Proof of of Theorem 1
Let be fixed and be the injectivity radius of . Fix some point . Let , , be a real number to be determined later. Take a sequence of functions
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where , denotes the geodesic distance between and , and . One calculates
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Choose satisfying and on . We set
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where is chosen so that . As a consequence,
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It follows from (18)-(20) that
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and
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Combining (21) and (22), we have
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Note that . If is chosen sufficiently small, then we conclude
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This completes the proof of of Theorem 1.
In the remaining part of this section, we always assume . Since the proof of of Theorem 1 is very long, we sketch its outline as follows: Step 1. For any , , there exists a minimizer for the subcritical functional . By assumption that has no minimizer on , we have as . Step 2. We prove that in , where denotes the exponential map on , is an appropriate scale, and can be explicitly written out via a classification result of Chen-Li [3]. Moreover, assuming , we show that weakly in for any and in , where is a Green function on . Step 3. Applying the maximum principle to and using the asymptotic behavior of derived in Step 2, we obtain a lower bound of on . Step 4. We construct a sequence of functions such that converges to the lower bound obtained in Step 3.
2.3 Minimizers for subcritical functionals
We first prove that is attained for any . Precisely we have
Proposition 5**.**
For any , there exists some function such that
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Moreover, satisfies the Euler-Lagrange equation
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Proof. Let be fixed. Take such that
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as . Noting that
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Hence is bounded in . We can assume without loss of generality that converges to weakly in , strongly in for any and almost everywhere in . Clearly
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Moreover an analog of (26) implies that is bounded in for any . This together with the mean value theorem and the HΓΆlder inequality,
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Combining (27) and (28), we conclude (23).
Using a method of Lagrange multiplier, one easily gets (24), the Euler-Lagrange equation of the minimizer . Applying elliptic estimates to (24), we have .
Lemma 6**.**
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Proof. One may conclude the lemma by using the Jensen inequality. But we prefer a contradiction argument as below. Clearly
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If , then up to a subsequence
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which contradicts (29). Thus we get the desired result.
Lemma 7**.**
There holds
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Proof. Though the proof may be obvious for experts, we give the details here for readerβs convenience. On one hand, for any , there exists some such that
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Obviously we have
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Hence
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Since is arbitrary, we have
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On the other hand,
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Extracting diagonal sequence, we obtain
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Combining (30) and (31), we get the desired result.
Lemma 8**.**
If is bounded, then is bounded in and a minimizer for the functional exists on the function space .
Proof. Since is a bounded sequence, it follows from (29) that
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Hence is bounded in and thus is bounded in for any . Applying elliptic estimates to the equation (24), in view of Lemma 6, we have that converges to some in . By Lemma 7, we have
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Therefore is a minimizer of .
Denote
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Proposition 9**.**
If is bounded from above, then has a minimizer in .
Proof. Multiplying both sides of the equation (24) by , we have by using Lemma 6, the assumption that is bounded from above and the Sobolev embedding theorem,
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This implies that is bounded in . Applying elliptic estimates to (24), we conclude that converges to a minimizer of in .
2.4 Blow-up analysis
We now analyze the asymptotic behavior of . By our assumption that has no minimizer on , in view of Lemma 8 and Proposition 9, we have
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The convergence of will be described in the following proposition.
Proposition 10**.**
Assume and has no minimizer in . Let be a sequence of solutions to the equation (24). Let be defined as in (32) and assume that . If we define
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and
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then
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Moreover, converges to a Green function weakly in for any , strongly in for all , and in , where satisfies
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The proof of Proposition 10 will be divided into several lemmas.
Lemma 11**.**
Let be defined as in (35). For any , there holds . In particular, for any .
Proof. Multiplying both sides of the equation (24) by , we have
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In view of the Trudinger-Moser inequality (6), we estimate
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It follows that
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This together with (33) gives the desired result.
Let be fixed and be the injectivity radius of . For , the Euclidean ball of center [math] and radius , we set
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Clearly , the standard Euclidean metric, in as . Note that . Concerning the asymptotic behavior of , we have the following:
Lemma 12**.**
* in .*
Proof. In view of (24), (39) and (40), we have
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Let be any fixed number. By (38) and the Sobolev embedding theorem, we have
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Let be a geodesic ball centered at with radius . It follows from a change of variables, (42) and Lemma 11 that
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as . Therefore we conclude that converges to [math] in for any . Noting that for all and applying elliptic estimates to (41), we obtain in for some satisfying
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where denotes the usual Laplacian operator on . Then the Liouville theorem leads to for . This completes the proof of the lemma.
Let be defined as in (34) for . To prove (36), we calculate on ,
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An obvious analog of (43) implies that in as for any . Note that . In view of Lemma 12, we have by applying elliptic estimates to (44), in as , where satisfies
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A result of Chen-Li [3] implies that can be written as in (36) and thus
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Lemma 13**.**
There holds in sense of measure, where denotes the Dirac measure centered at .
Proof. By a change of variables, we have
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This together with (45) leads to
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Hence
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Combining (46) and (47), we have for any ,
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This gives the desired result.
Lemma 14**.**
If is a solution of , then for any , there exists some constant depending only on and such that
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Proof. Without loss of generality we assume . Let be the standard Green function satisfying and , where denotes the Dirac measure centered at , and is the area of . Clearly
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It follows from [7] that for some constant depending only on , where stands for the geodesic distance between and . Let . One calculates by using the HΓΆlder inequality
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Hence for some constant depending only on and .
Lemma 15**.**
For any , there exists some constant such that .
Proof. Clearly (24) gives
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In view of Lemma 14, it suffices to prove
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Noting that , we only need to prove that is bounded in . For otherwise we can assume as . Set . Then and . Obviously is bounded in . Given any . It follows from Lemma 14 that is bounded in . One can assume up to a subsequence, converges to weakly in , strongly in for any , and almost everywhere in . Moreover, is a distributional solution of
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This leads to contradicting the fact that . Therefore must be bounded and thus (49) holds.
Combining Lemmas 13 and 15, we obtain for all and ,
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where is a distributional solution of (37). Applying elliptic estimates to (37), we have that takes the form
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where denotes the geodesic distance between and , and . To complete the proof of Proposition 10, we also need the following:
Lemma 16**.**
* in as .*
Proof. For any domain , let be a solution of
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By Lemma 13, converges to [math] in as . A result of Brezis-Merle [2] implies that for any , there exists some constant such that
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Setting , we have on ,
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In view of Lemma 15, is bounded in for any . For any , applying elliptic estimates to (52), we have that is uniformly bounded in . This together with (51) leads to for some , where is defined as in (48). Then we get the desired result by applying elliptic estimates to (48).
2.5 Lower bound estimate
In this subsection, we shall derive a lower bound of on . Let be the Green function satisfying and
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Clearly can be represented by
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where denotes the geodesic distance between and . Moreover, there holds as . Similar to [4], we have the following maximum principle.
Lemma 17**.**
For any and , there exists a constant such that for all , there holds
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Proof. Note that
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In view of Proposition 10 and the formula (54), we have on that
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The desired result follows from the maximum principle immediately.
For any fixed , we have
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By Proposition 10 we have
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It follows from (24) that
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Lemma 17 leads to
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We estimate three terms on the right hand side of (2.5) respectively. Using (24) and (53), we obtain
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It also follows from (24) that
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In view of (47), one has
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Here, in (60), we use the fact that is bounded. Inserting (2.5)-(60) into (2.5), we get the lower bound estimate of . Then inserting this lower bound to (2.5), we obtain the estimate of as below.
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Using Proposition 10 and Lemma 17, one has
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In view of (50) and Proposition 10, we have
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Then it follows by Lemma 11 that
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Also Proposition 10 and Lemma 11 lead to
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In view of (50) and Lemma 11, we have
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It follows from Lemma 6, Proposition 10 and Lemma 11 that
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and
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Hence we have by inserting (2.5)-(67) into (2.5),
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Combining (2.5) and (2.5), we have
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Letting first and then , one has
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2.6 Test function computation
In this subsection, we construct a sequence of functions satisfying
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where
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Suppose that . Let be the geodesic distance between and . We set
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where is a cut-off function, in , for all , is defined as in (50),
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and satisfying and as .
A straightforward calculation shows
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Moreover we have
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Using (50) one has
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where we have used the facts and .
Moreover one can easily get that
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that
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and that
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where we have used (53) and (50). Inserting (74)-(78) into (2.6) we obtain
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Combining (72) and (79), we have
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Clearly
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and
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We now estimate . Choosing sufficiently small and noting that has the expression (50) in , we have
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A straightforward calculation gives
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and
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Also one has
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and
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Inserting (84)-(87) into (2.6), we have
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where is a constant depending only on , and . Hence
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Combining (80), (81), (82) and (88), we have
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This implies (70), which together with (2.5) completes the proof of of Theorem 1.
3 Proof of Theorem 3
In this section we prove Theorem 3 by using similar method of the proof of Theorem 1. Let be an orthonormal basis of , namely and
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for all . Note that . if and only if and for all .
Proof of of Theorem 3. Let be fixed. Using the argument of Subsections 2.3-2.5 with minor modifications, we obtain an analog of (2.5) as the following: If has no minimizer in , then
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where is a constant, denotes the geodesic distance between and , is a Green function satisfying (14). Assume
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It follows from elliptic estimates that can be written as
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where and denotes the geodesic distance between and . We now prove that if has no minimizer in , then
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Similar to (71), we set
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where is a cut-off function, in , for all ,
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and satisfying and as . Similar to (2.6), we derive
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where
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Define a new sequence of functions
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where is an orthonormal basis on . Clearly .
Noting that
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we have
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for any . This together with (93) leads to
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Also we calculate
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and
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for some constant depending only on and . Hence we have
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Denote . Noting that for , we have by combining (94) and (95) that
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Obviously (94) leads to
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In view of (96) and (97), we have
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Noting that
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and recalling (94), we get
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Similarly we have
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It follows from (98)-(100) that
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This together with (92) leads to
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Comparing (101) with (90), we conclude (91) under the assumption that has no minimizer on . This completes the proof of of Theorem 3.
Proof of of Theorem 3. Since the proof is completely analogous to that of of Theorem 1, we omit the details but leave it to the interested reader.
Proof of of Theorem 3. Let be defined as in (20). We set
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Obviously . One can check that
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and
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for some positive constants and depending only on , and . For any , we take such that . Then we have as . This gives the desired result.
Remark 18**.**
When we were students, we learned from Professor Jiayu Li that they mistyped as at some places in [4]. The first place is in Lemma 2.5, one needs choose a local normal coordinate system around . The second place is Lemma 2.9, it should be written as: In , we have , where as . And the third place is in the proof of Lemma 2.2, the integral should be divided into and then be estimated respectively.
Acknowledgements. Y. Yang is supported by the National Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.11171347 and 11471014). X. Zhu is supported by the National Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41275063 and 11401575).
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