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In this paper, we consider the problem of prescribing scalar curvature under minimal boundary conditions on the standard four-dimensional half sphere. We describe the lack of compactness of the associated variational problem and we give new existence and multiplicity results.
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Alghanemi, A., Abdelhedi, W. & Chtioui, H. Prescribing the scalar curvature problem on the four-dimensional half sphere. Arab. J. Math. 6, 137–151 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40065-016-0155-z
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