• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.55 no.5
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• pp.1091-1101
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• 2018

We concern in this paper the graph Kazdan-Warner equation $${\Delta}f=g-he^f$$ on an infinite graph, the prototype of which comes from the smooth Kazdan-Warner equation on an open manifold. Different from the variational methods often used in the finite graph case, we use a heat flow method to study the graph Kazdan-Warner equation. We prove the existence of a solution to the graph Kazdan-Warner equation under the assumption that $h{\leq}0$ and some other integrability conditions or constrictions about the underlying infinite graphs.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.60 no.2
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• pp.375-393
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• 2023

Rabinowitz action functional is the Lagrange multiplier functional of the negative area functional to a constraint given by the mean value of a Hamiltonian. In this note we show that on a symplectization there is a one-to-one correspondence between gradient flow lines of Rabinowitz action functional and gradient flow lines of the restriction of the negative area functional to the constraint. In the appendix we explain the motivation behind this result. Namely that the restricted functional satisfies Chas-Sullivan additivity for concatenation of loops which the Rabinowitz action functional does in general not do.