Preface ....................................................... vii
1. Gaussian curvature equation .................................. 1
2. Moser-Trudinger inequality (on the sphere) ................... 9
3. Polyakov formula on compact surfaces ........................ 17
4. Conformal covariant operators - Paneitz
operator .................................................... 25
5. Functional determinant on 4-manifolds ....................... 30
6. Extremal metrics for the log-determinant
functional .................................................. 38
7. Elementary symmetric functions .............................. 50
8. A priori estimates for the regularized
equation (*)δ ............................................... 56
9. Smoothing via the Yamabe flow ............................... 74
10.Deforming δ σ2 to a constant function ....................... 79
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