Nonexistence conjecture for four-source Liouville equations on rectangular tori

Let EτE_\tau be the rectangular torus with τiR>0\tau\in i\mathbb{R}_{>0}, and let n0,n1,n2,n3Z0n_0,n_1,n_2,n_3\in\mathbb{Z}_{\geq0}. Consider the four-source equation

Δu+eu=8πk=03nkδωk/2on Eτ,\Delta u+e^u=8\pi\sum_{k=0}^3 n_k\delta_{\omega_k/2}\quad\text{on }E_\tau,

where the source points are the four half-periods. Define the conditions

n1+n2n0n321,n11,n21,\frac{n_1+n_2-n_0-n_3}{2}\geq1,\quad n_1\geq1,\quad n_2\geq1,

and

n1+n2n0n321,n01,n31.\frac{n_1+n_2-n_0-n_3}{2}\leq-1,\quad n_0\geq1,\quad n_3\geq1.

Four-source nonexistence conjecture. The equation has no solution for any τiR>0\tau\in i\mathbb{R}_{>0} if and only if (n0,n1,n2,n3)(n_0,n_1,n_2,n_3) satisfies neither of these two conditions.

The conjecture removes the evenness assumption from the paper's sharp nonexistence theorem. The supplied text does not report a proof or disproof, so the conjecture remains open.

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Zhijie Chen and Chang-Shou Lin, “Sharp nonexistence results for curvature equations with four singular sources on rectangular tori”, arXiv:1709.04287 (2017).

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