Working on some $Q$-curvature equation in dimension $4$, I have been faced with singular metric of the form $(\mathbb{B}, e^{-1/\vert x\vert ^2} \vert dx\vert)$. I try to figure out to what those metrics look like. In order to do so, I refer to the well known $2$-dimensional where we have conical metric $(\mathbb{D}, \vert x\vert^{\beta-1} \vert dx\vert)$ which are isometric to a cone of angle $2\pi \beta$. If $\beta=n$ is an integer, I can think about it as the neighborhood of $0$ of and $n$-fold branched unit disc. My question is: is there is a similar interpretation for $(\mathbb{D}, e^{-1/\vert x\vert ^2} \vert dx\vert)$ (in dimension 2)? Can we think about this metric as the limit of some more classical degenerate metric? Any reference will be welcome. Thx in advance
singular metric (with essential singularity)
Paul
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