id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt wd375t3796b Yueh-Ju Lin Connected sum construction of constant Q-curvature manifolds in higher dimensions 2014 .txt text/plain 99 3 29 For a compact Riemannian manifold $(M, g_2)$ of dimension $ngeq 6$ with constant $Q$-curvature satisfying a nondegeneracy condition, we show that one can construct many other examples of constant $Q$-curvature manifolds by a gluing construction. In particular, we prove the existence of solutions of a fourth-order partial differential equation, which implies the existence of a smooth metric with constant $Q$-curvature on the connected sum $N#M$. cache/wd375t3796b.txt txt/wd375t3796b.txt