Prescribing a fourth order conformal invariant on the standard sphere, Part II: blow-up analysis and applications

Djadli, Zindine; Malchiodi, Andrea; Ahmedou, Mohameden Ould

Prescribing a fourth order conformal invariant on the standard sphere, Part II: blow-up analysis and applications

Authors

Djadli, Zindine

Malchiodi, Andrea

Ahmedou, Mohameden Ould

Description

In this paper we perform a fine blow-up analysis for a fourth order elliptic equation involving critical Sobolev exponent, related to the prescription of some conformal invariant on the standard sphere. We derive from this analysis some a priori estimates in dimension 5 and 6. On the five dimensionl sphere these a priori estimates combined with the perturbation result of Part I allow us to obtain some existence results. On the six dimensional sphere we prove the existence of at least one solution when an associated index is different from zero.