Square-integrability of solutions of the Yamabe equation
Résumé
We show that solutions of the Yamabe equation on certain n-dimensional non-compact Riemannian manifolds, which are bounded and L-p for p = 2n/(n -2) are also L-2. This L-p-L-2 implication provides explicit constants in the surgery-monotonicity formula for the smooth Yamabe invariant in our paper [4]. As an application we see that the smooth Yamabe invariant of any two-connected compact seven-dimensional manifold is at least 74.5. Similar conclusions follow in dimension 8 and in dimensions >= 11.