A fully nonlinear conformal flow on locally conformally flat manifolds

Pengfei Guan and Guofang Wang

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Submission date: 30. Jan. 2002
Pages: 19
published in: Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 557 (2003), p. 219-238 
DOI number (of the published article): 10.1515/crll.2003.033
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MSC-Numbers: 53C21, 35J60, 58J60
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Abstract:
We study a fully nonlinear flow for conformal metrics. The long-time existence and the sequential convergence of flow will be established for locally conformally flat manifolds. As an application, we solve the -Yamabe problem for locally conformal flat manifolds when .