Kazdan–Warner equation on hypergraphs

Abstract

UDC 519.17. 519.951

Let $H=(V, E)$ be a connected finite  hypergraph, which is an extension of the graph theory in which the edges may connect more than two vertices and form hyperedges. We study the Kazdan-Warner equation\begin{gather*}\Delta \phi=c-he^{\phi}\end{gather*} on $H,$ where $c$ is a constant and $h$  is a known function defined on $H$. Based on the work by Grigor'yan, Lin, and Yang [A. Grigor'yan, Y. Lin, Y. Yang, Kazdan–Warner equation on graph, Calc. Var.  Partial Differential Equations, 55, № 4, Article 92 (2016)], we employ the variational calculus  to extend the main results concerning the solutions to the Kazdan-Warner equation from finite graphs to hypergraphs. We obtain similar results for the cases where $c>0$ and $c<0$ provided that $h$ satisfies certain conditions on hypergraphs. However, for the case where $c=0,$ we cannot get the same results.