We consider the Yamabe flow of a conformally Euclidean manifold for which the conformal factor’s reciprocal is a quadratic function of the Cartesian coordinates at each instant in time. This leads to a class of explicit solutions having no continuous symmetries (no Killing fields) but which converge in time to the cigar soliton (in two-dimensions, where the Ricci and Yamabe flows coincide) or in higher dimensions to the collapsing cigar. We calculate the exponential rate of this convergence precisely, using the logarithm of the optimal bi-Lipschitz constant to metrize distance between two Riemannian manifolds.

We prove the Lazer-McKenna conjecture for an elliptic problem of Ambrosetti-Prodi type with critical and supercritical nonlinearities by constructing solutions concentrating on higher dimensional manifolds, under some partially symmetric assumption on the domain.