Special Session 117: Advances on nonlinear elliptic PDEs

The problem of prescribing non-constant curvatures in a disk

Francisco Javier Reyes Sanchez
Universidad de Granada
Spain
Co-Author(s):    Rafael Lopez Soriano and David Ruiz
Abstract:
In this talk we outlines a general existence result regarding the prescription of curvatures on a disk under conformal changes of the metric. This problem is equivalent to solving a nonlinear partial differential equation with nonlinear Neumann boundary conditions. We addresses the case of negative Gaussian curvature. As a preliminary step, we focus on a symmetric setting. Additionally, we present a non-existence result, demonstrating that the assumptions for existence are necessary. This is a work in collaboration with Rafael Lopez Soriano and David Ruiz from the University of Granada.