Prescribing Curvature on Compact Surfaces with Conical Singularities
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- 1 April 1991
- journal article
- Published by JSTOR in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
- Vol. 324 (2), 793-821
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2001742
Abstract
We study the Berger-Nirenberg problem on surfaces with conical singularities, i.e. we discuss conditions under which a function on a Riemann surface is the Gaussian curvature of some conformal metric with a prescribed set of singularities of conical types.Keywords
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