Prescribing integral curvature equation

Abstract

In this paper we formulate new curvature functions on $\mathbb{S}^n$ via integral operators. For certain even orders, these curvature functions are equivalent to the classic curvature functions defined via differential operators, but not for all even orders. Existence result for antipodally symmetric prescribed curvature functions on $\mathbb{S}^n$ is obtained. As a corollary, the existence of a conformal metric for an antipodally symmetric prescribed $Q-$curvature functions on $\mathbb{S}^3$ is proved. Curvature function on general compact manifold as well as the conformal covariance property for the corresponding integral operator are also addressed, and a general Yamabe type problem is proposed.Comment: References are updated. This is the first paper where the reversed Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality is used to solve an equation with negative critical Sobolev exponen