We prove that the Paneitz energy on the standard three-sphere is bounded from below and extremal metrics must be conformally equivalent to the standard metric.
Mots clés : Paneitz operator, symmetrization, extremal metric
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Yang, Paul; Zhu, Meijun. On the Paneitz energy on standard three sphere. ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, Tome 10 (2004) no. 2, pp. 211-223. doi : 10.1051/cocv:2004002. http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.1051/cocv:2004002/
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