{"title":"On positivity of the Q-curvatures of conformal metrics","authors":"Mingxiang Li , Xingwang Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111011","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We mainly show that for a conformal metric <span><math><mi>g</mi><mo>=</mo><msup><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><mrow><mfrac><mrow><mn>4</mn></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>2</mn><mi>m</mi></mrow></mfrac></mrow></msup><mo>|</mo><mi>d</mi><mi>x</mi><msup><mrow><mo>|</mo></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></math></span> on <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msup></math></span> with <span><math><mi>n</mi><mo>≥</mo><mn>2</mn><mi>m</mi><mo>+</mo><mn>1</mn></math></span>, if the <span><math><mn>2</mn><mi>m</mi><mo>−</mo></math></span>order Q-curvature <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>Q</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>g</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>(</mo><mn>2</mn><mi>m</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></msubsup></math></span> is positive and has slow decay barrier near infinity, the lower order Q-curvature <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>Q</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>g</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>(</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></msubsup></math></span> and <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>Q</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>g</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>(</mo><mn>4</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></msubsup></math></span> are both positive if <em>m</em> is at least two.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15750,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional Analysis","volume":"289 8","pages":"Article 111011"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Functional Analysis","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022123625001934","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
On positivity of the Q-curvatures of conformal metrics
We mainly show that for a conformal metric on with , if the order Q-curvature is positive and has slow decay barrier near infinity, the lower order Q-curvature and are both positive if m is at least two.
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