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Existence of second order potential for PDE

There is a statement in the literature (see the paragraph between equations (18) and (19) in http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.523863), which I would like to generalise, but I don't have a nice ...
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Existence of solution for the PDE $p \frac{\partial f(p, q)}{\partial p}-q \frac{\partial f(p, q)}{\partial q}=g(p, q)$

Consider the following PDE: \begin{equation} p \frac{\partial f(p, q)}{\partial p}-q \frac{\partial f(p, q)}{\partial q}=g(p, q),\tag{$\star$} \end{equation} where $g$ is a flat function at the point (...
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Geometric properties of the unique solution of an elliptic BVP involving the Lie derivative of the metric by a vector field

Setting Let $(M,g)$ be a compact Riemannian manifold with smooth boundary, and let $\nabla$ be its associated Levi-Civita connection. Consider the following formally self-adjoint, second order linear ...
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On the relation between ellipticity and Fredholmness as properties of linear PDE's on Fréchet spaces of smooth sections

Let $M$ be a compact manifold equipped with finite rank vector bundles $E$ and $F$ with spaces of $C^{\infty}$ sections denoted $\Gamma(E)$ and $\Gamma(F)$ respectively. It is standard that a ...
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Is there a metric on Euclidean space that turns the Helmholtz equation into the Laplace equation?

Is there a Riemannian metric $\tilde g$ on $\mathbb R^d$ such that $$\tag{1} \Delta_{\tilde g}=e^f(\Delta +1),$$ for some $f\in C^\infty(\mathbb R^d)$? Here $\Delta=\partial_{x_1}^2+\ldots+\partial_{...
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Does this PDE only have the trivial solution?

Let $(M,g)$ be a closed Einstein manifold of dimension $m>2$ and $$ \mathrm{Ricc}(g)=\lambda g, $$ $h$ a symmetric $2$-covariant tensor, $\Delta=\nabla^*\nabla$ the Laplacian on functions as well ...
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The only rotation fields satisfying this PDE are constant

$\newcommand{\div}{\operatorname{div}}$$\newcommand{\SO}{\operatorname{SO(2)}}$$\newcommand{\R}{\operatorname{\mathbb{R}}}$$\newcommand{\bdx}{\partial_x}$$\newcommand{\bdy}{\partial_y}$$\newcommand{\...
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Isometric immersions of $\mathbb{S}^n$ into $\mathbb{S}^{2n}$

A major open problem in submanifold geometry is to determine whether there exists a nontotally geodesic isometric immersion of $\mathbb{S}^n$ into $\mathbb{S}^{2n}$. Every isometric immersion of $\...
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Generalized functional for solution of PDEs

Asked this on Math Stack Exchange awhile ago but it got ignored then deleted. To solve a differential equation of one variable, you need constraints equal to the number of derivatives. For a partial ...
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Cauchy–Kowalevski Theorem for PDEs

I hope to extend the PDEs across the boundary using Cauchy–Kowalevski Theorem. Given a real analytic manifold $M$ with boundary $\partial M$, the solution $u$ to the PDE $$\triangle u+b(x)\nabla u+c(...
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