Formal self-adjointness of a family of conformally invariant bidifferential operators

Jeffrey S. Case; Zetian Yan

doi:10.1007/s00526-026-03286-5

Formal self-adjointness of a family of conformally invariant bidifferential operators

Jeffrey S. Case
, Zetian Yan

Mathematics

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Abstract

We prove that the curved Ovsienko–Redou operators and a related family of differential operators are formally self-adjoint. This verifies two conjectures of Case, Lin, and Yuan.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	100
Journal	Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations
Volume	65
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-026-03286-5
State	Published - Mar 2026

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Applied Mathematics

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