New Yamabe-type flow in a compact Riemannian manifold

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new Yamabe-type flow on compact Riemannian manifolds, demonstrating global existence and convergence to solutions of a related elliptic equation, extending previous results by Aubin.

Contribution

The paper develops a novel Yamabe-type flow that preserves the L^{p+1} norm and proves its global existence and convergence, generalizing earlier work by Aubin.

Findings

Flow exists globally for any positive initial metric.

Flow converges to a smooth solution of the elliptic equation.

Generalizes Aubin's results on Yamabe flow.

Abstract

In this paper, we set up a new Yamabe type flow on a compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ of dimension $n\geq 3$. Let $\psi(x)$ be any smooth function on $M$. Let $p=\frac{n+2}{n-2}$ and $c_n=\frac{4(n-1)}{n-2}$. We study the Yamabe-type flow $u=u(t)$ satisfying {u_t}=u^{1-p}(c_n\Delta u-\psi(x)u)+r(t)u, \ \ in \ M\times (0,T),\ T>0 with r(t)=\int_M(c_n|\nabla u|^2+\psi(x)u^2)dv/ \int_Mu^{p+1}, which preserves the $L^{p+1}(M)$-norm and we can show that for any initial metric $u_0>0$, the flow exists globally. We also show that in some cases, the global solution converges to a smooth solution to the equation c_n\Delta u-\psi(x)u+r(\infty)u^{p}=0, \ \ on \ M and our result may be considered as a generalization of the result of T.Aubin, Proposition in p.131 in \cite{A82}.