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Remark on ``A problem of prescribing Gaussian curvature on $ S^2$" [Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), no. 12, 3757-3758]

Author(s): Edward M. Fan
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 135 (2007), 107-108.
MSC (2000): Primary 35J60; Secondary 31B30, 35J30, 53C21
Posted: June 13, 2006
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Abstract: In this note, we remark on a 2001 paper of S. Goyal and V. Goyal. The main result of this work is that they used some elementary method to find a class of functions $ K(x)=K(x_1,x_2,x_3)$ for which the solutions to

$\displaystyle \Delta u + K(x)e^{2u} = 1$

on $ S^2$ can be obtained. We observe that this class of functions that they studied is actually the trivial one, i.e. the class of positive constant functions.


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S. Goyal and V. Goyal, A problem of prescribing Gaussian curvature on $ \mathbb{S}^2$, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), no. 12, 3757-3758. MR 1860514 (2002h:35064)

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Additional Information:

Edward M. Fan
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
Email: efan@math.princeton.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-06-08461-9
PII: S 0002-9939(06)08461-9
Keywords: Laplace operator, Gaussian curvature
Received by editor(s): July 18, 2005
Posted: June 13, 2006
Additional Notes: This work was partially supported by NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Communicated by: David S. Tartakoff
Copyright of article: Copyright 2006, American Mathematical Society


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