Blow-up analysis for a Hardy-Sobolev equation on compact Riemannian manifolds with application to the existence of solutions

Abstract

On a compact Riemannian manifold, we study a singular elliptic equation with critical Sobolev exponent and critical Hardy potential. In a first part, we prove an $H^2_1$ type decomposition result for Palais-Smale sequences of the associated energy functional. In a second part, we apply the decomposition result to obtain solutions of different energy levels.