Gluing methods for the Yamabe problem with isolated singularities

We construct some solutions for the fractional Yamabe problem with isolated singularities, problem which arises in conformal geometry, $$ (-\Delta)^\gamma u= c_{n, {\gamma}}u^{\frac{n+2\gamma}{n-2\gamma}}, u>0 \ \mbox{in}\ {\mathbb R}^n \backslash \Sigma.$$ The fractional curvature, a generalization of the usual scalar curvature, is defined from the conformal fractional Laplacian, which is a non-local operator constructed on the conformal infinity of a conformally compact Einstein manifold. When the singular set $\Sigma$ is composed by one point, some new tools for fractional order ODE can be applied to show that a generalization of the usual Delaunay solves the fractional Yamabe problem with an isolated singularity at $\Sigma$. When the set $\Sigma$ is a finite number of points, using gluing methods, we will provide a solution for the fractional Yamabe problem with singularities at $\Sigma$. In order to preserve the non-locality of the problem, we need to glue infinitely many bubbles per point removed. This seems to be the first time that a gluing method is successfully applied to a non-local problem. This is a joint work with Weiwei Ao, Mar\'ia del Mar Gonz\'alez and Juncheng Wei.Non UBCUnreviewedAuthor affiliation: University of FreiburgPostdoctora