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Global existence and convergence proved for Kazdan-Warner equation with non-negative prescribed function.

In this paper we study the problem of conformally deforming a metric to a prescribed symmetric function of the eigenvalues of the Schouten tensor on compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary. We prove its solvability and the compactness of the solution set, provided the Ricci tensor is non-negative definite.

The study of radial prescribing scalar curvature of X.Xu and P.C.Yang [2] in 1993 showed a nonexistence result on $S^2$. Later in 1995, W.Chen and C.Li [2] generalized the nonexistence result to higher dimensions. G.Bianchi and E.Egnell [1] suggested that there may exist some non-negative smooth radial function which c…

We give some a priori estimates of type sup*inf for Yamabe and prescribed scalar curvature type equations on Riemannian manifolds of dimension >2. The product sup*inf is caracteristic of those equations, like the usual Harnack inequalities for non negative harmonic functions. First, we have a lower bound for sup*inf fo…

In this note, we study the curvature flow to Nirenberg problem on $S^2$ with non-negative nonlinearity. This flow was introduced by Brendle and Struwe. Our result is that the Nirenberg problems has a solution provided the prescribed non-negative Gaussian curvature $f$ has its positive part, which possesses non-degenera…

Develops Hodge theory on ALG$^*$ manifolds, proving existence and vanishing results.

The study proves manifold properties related to positive scalar curvature.

Survey on rigidity results for graphs with prescribed mean curvature.

The paper proves the existence of hypersurfaces with prescribed mean curvature.

The paper studies metrics that match prescribed geodesics and introduces a variational problem.

In Riemannian geometry the prescribed Ricci curvature problem is as follows: given a smooth manifold $M$ and a symmetric 2-tensor $r$, construct a metric on $M$ whose Ricci tensor equals $r$. In particular, DeTurck and Koiso proved the following celebrated result: the Ricci curvature uniquely determines the Levi-Civita…

We study the existence of surfaces with constant or prescribed Gauss curvature in certain Lorentzian spacetimes. We prove in particular that every (non-elementary) 3-dimensional maximal globally hyperbolic spatially compact spacetime with constant non-negative curvature is foliated by compact spacelike surfaces with co…

Survey on rigidity and almost rigidity of Green functions in non-negative Ricci curvature spaces.

Constructs new steady gradient Ricci solitons for higher dimensions.

Introduces joint exclusivity (JE), a new form of negative dependence.

The paper proves conjectures and classifies metrics on 3D manifolds.

We obtain higher dimensional analogues of the results of Mantoulidis and Schoen in [8]. More precisely, we show that (i) any metric $g$ with positive scalar curvature on the $3$-sphere $S^3$ can be realized as the induced metric on the outermost apparent horizon of a $4$-dimensional asymptotically flat manifold with no…

The paper splits manifolds using infinity harmonic functions with linear growth.

We prove the existence of "half-plane differentials" with prescribed local data on any Riemann surface. These are meromorphic quadratic differentials with higher-order poles which have an associated singular flat metric isometric to a collection of euclidean half-planes glued by an interval-exchange map on their bounda…

Proves optimal regularity for sphere minimizers in 3-sphere.

Non-negative $L_1$-approximating polynomials for Gaussian distributions are proven for certain classes of sets.

Extends Eells-Sampson theorem for manifolds with positive sectional curvature bounds.

Proves existence and uniqueness of Killing graphs with prescribed curvature.

SOS programming verifies MTW tensor non-negativity for optimal transport maps.

The paper constructs surfaces with prescribed mean curvature in a specific space.

Motivated by applications in hyperspectral imaging we investigate methods for approximating a high-dimensional non-negative matrix $\mathbf{\mathit{Y}}$ by a product of two lower-dimensional, non-negative matrices $\mathbf{\mathit{K}}$ and $\mathbf{\mathit{X}}.$ This so-called non-negative matrix factorization is based…

In this paper, we study open complete metric spaces with non-negative curvature. Among other things, we establish an extension of Perelman's soul theorem for possibly singular spaces: "Let X be a complete, non-compact, finite dimensional Alexandrov space with non-negative curvature. Suppose that X has no boundary and h…

We use a phase space analysis to give some classification results for rotational hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ whose mean curvature is given as a prescribed function of its Gauss map. For the case where the prescribed function is an even function in $\mathbb{S}^n$, we show that a Delaunay-type classification hold…

Classification of surfaces with prescribed mean curvature in Heisenberg space and SL2(R).

For graphs with non-negative Ollivier curvature, we prove the Liouville property, i.e., every bounded harmonic function is constant. Moreover, we improve Ollivier's results on concentration of the measure under positive Ollivier curvature.

Sharp Hardy inequalities on Riemannian submanifolds with non-negative curvature.

In this paper, we consider the problem of prescribing scalar curvature on n-sphere. Assume that the candidate curvature function $f$, which is allowed to change sign, satisfies some kind of Morse index or symmetry condition. By studying the well-known scalar curvature flow, we are able to prove that the flow converges …

Develops variational approach for Kähler-Einstein metrics with prescribed singularities on Fano manifolds.

Study local curvature estimates and existence of conformal metrics on noncompact manifolds.

We prove existence of compact spacelike hypersurfaces with prescribed k - curvature in de Sitter space, where the prescription function depends on both space and the tilt function.

Paper proposes robust risk measures for non-negative risks with partial information.

New bounds on Bartnik mass for surfaces with non-negative first eigenvalue.

The study proves a new inequality and formula for manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature.

In this work, we study the Yamabe flow corresponding to the prescribed scalar curvature problem on compact Riemannian manifolds with negative scalar curvature. The long time existence and convergence of the flow are proved under appropriate conditions on the prescribed scalar curvature function.

Conditions for scalar curvature on compact manifolds under conformal deformation.

Theory proves existence of hypersurfaces with prescribed curvature.

Study reconstructs Morse-Bott functions with specific preimage conditions on 3D manifolds.

We study conformally flat surfaces with prescribed Gaussian curvature, described by solutions $u$ of the PDE: $Δu(x)+K(x)\exp(2u(x))=0$, with $K(x)$ the Gauss curvature function at $x\in\RR^2$. We assume that the integral curvature is finite. For radially symmetric $K$ we introduce the notion of a least integrally curv…

We study the sparse non-negative least squares (S-NNLS) problem. S-NNLS occurs naturally in a wide variety of applications where an unknown, non-negative quantity must be recovered from linear measurements. We present a unified framework for S-NNLS based on a rectified power exponential scale mixture prior on the spars…

In this paper we construct complete simply connected minimal surfaces with a prescribed coordinate function. Moreover, we prove that these surfaces are dense in the space of all minimal surfaces with this coordinate function (with the topology of the smooth convergence on compact sets).

Study finds loops with specific curvature exist using Hardy's inequality.

In this paper, we prove the existence of hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space with prescribed boundary and whose k-th Weingarten curvature equals a given function that depends on the normal of the hypersurface. The proof is based on the solvability of a fully nonlinear elliptic PDE. The required a priori estimates are …

Unified framework for non-negative matrices and tensors using Wasserstein loss.