Prescribing Morse Scalar Curvatures: Incompatibility of Non Existence

Abstract

Given a closed manifold of positive Yamabe invariant and for instance positive Morse functions upon it, the conformally prescribed scalar curvature problem raises the question of whether or not such functions can by conformally changing the metric be realized as the scalar curvature of this manifold. As we shall quantify, depending on the shape and structure of such functions, every lack of a solution for some candidate function leads to existence of energetically uniformly bounded solutions for entire classes of related candidate functions.