Vanishing-order conjecture for the umbilicity tensor and Weyl curvature

Let gg) be a smooth Riemannian metric defined on the unit half nn-ball B1+B^+_1, where 4n244\leq n\leq24. Suppose there is a sequence of positive solutions {ui}\{u_i\} of

{Lgui+Kuipi=0in B1+,Bgui=0on B1+Rn1,\begin{cases} L_g u_i+K u_i^{p_i}=0 & \text{in } B^+_1,\\ B_g u_i=0 & \text{on } \overline{B^+_1}\cap\mathbb{R}^{n-1}, \end{cases}

with pi(1,n+2n2]p_i\in(1,\frac{n+2}{n-2}], such that for every ε>0\varepsilon>0 there is a constant C(ε)>0C(\varepsilon)>0 satisfying supB1+Bε+uiC(ε)\sup_{B^+_1\setminus B^+_\varepsilon}u_i\leq C(\varepsilon) and limisupB1+ui=\lim_{i\to\infty}\sup_{B^+_1}u_i=\infty. Vanishing-order conjecture. The umbilicity tensor TgT_g satisfies

Tg(x)Cxm,xB1+Rn1,|T_g|(x)\leq C|x|^m,\qquad x\in\overline{B^+_1}\cap\mathbb{R}^{n-1},

for some integer m>n42m>\frac{n-4}{2}. Moreover, if n6n\geq6, then

Wg(x)Cx,xB1+,|W_g|(x)\leq C|x|^\ell,\qquad x\in B^+_1,

for some integer >n62\ell>\frac{n-6}{2}. The asserted estimates describe the high-order vanishing of conformally invariant curvature quantities at a boundary blow-up point; establishing them would constrain blow-up for the Yamabe problem with boundary in dimensions 4n244\leq n\leq24.

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Marcelo M. Disconzi and Marcus A. Khuri, “Compactness and Non-compactness for the Yamabe Problem on Manifolds With Boundary”, arXiv:1201.4559 (2017).

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