Yamabe's conjecture

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Let XX be a closed manifold of dimension d≥3d\geq 3, and let g0g_0 be a Riemannian metric on XX. A metric gg on XX is conformally equivalent to g0g_0 if it lies in the conformal class of g0g_0.

Yamabe's conjecture. There exists a metric gg on XX conformally equivalent to g0g_0 and having constant scalar curvature.

Yamabe's conjecture asks for a constant-scalar-curvature representative in every conformal class on a closed manifold of dimension at least three. It was confirmed by the work of Trudinger, Aubin, and Schoen.

References

Primary source

Paul M. N. Feehan, “Global existence and convergence of solutions to gradient systems and applications to Yang-Mills gradient flow”, arXiv:1409.1525 (2016).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2014). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1104.4086, arXiv:1010.4960.

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