Blow-up Theory for Elliptic PDEs in Riemannian Geometry

Elliptic equations of critical Sobolev growth have been the target of investigation for decades because they have proved to be of great importance in analysis, geometry, and physics. The equations studied here are of the well-known Yamabe type. They involve Schrödinger operators on the left hand side and a critical nonlinearity on the right hand side.


A significant development in the study of such equations occurred in the 1980s. It was discovered that the sequence splits into a solution of...