TY - JOUR T1 - A Note on the Yamabe Problem JO - Journal of Partial Differential Equations VL - 4 SP - 322 EP - 326 PY - 2005 DA - 2005/11 SN - 18 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jpde/5367.html KW - Convex hypersurface KW - Weingarten curvature AB -

In this note we verify the key inequality Y_1(M) < Y_1(S^n) for the Yamabe constant Y_1(M) for manifolds M not conformal to the unit sphere, by using a solution to an associated equation as a test function.