Paul C. Yang

Paul C. Yang (; born 1947) is a Taiwanese-American mathematician specializing in differential geometry, partial differential equations and CR manifolds. He is best known for his work in Conformal geometry for his study of extremal metrics and his research on scalar curvature and Q-curvature. In CR Geometry he is known for his work on the CR embedding problem, the CR Paneitz operator and for introducing the Q' curvature in CR Geometry.

Career Yang received a B.A. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969. He then earned his doctorate from Berkeley in 1973 under the supervision of Hung-Hsi Wu . He held positions at Rice University, the University of Maryland, Indiana University and the University of Southern California before joining Princeton University in 2001.

Awards and honors

Yang was a Sloan Foundation Fellow in 1981.

Selected publications Chang, Sun-Yung A.; Yang, Paul C. Conformal deformation of metrics on . J. Differential Geom. 27 (1988), no. 2, 259–296. Chang, Sun-Yung A.; Yang, Paul C. Prescribing Gaussian curvature on . Acta Math. 159 (1987), no. 3–4, 215–259. Chang, Sun-Yung A.; Yang, Paul C. Extremal metrics of zeta function determinants on 4-manifolds. Ann. of Math. (2) 142 (1995), no. 1, 171–212. Chang, Sun-Yung A.; Gursky, Matthew J.; Yang, Paul C. The scalar curvature equation on 2- and 3-spheres. Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 1 (1993), no. 2, 205–229. Chang, Sun-Yung A.; Gursky, Matthew J.; Yang, Paul C. An equation of Monge-Ampère type in conformal geometry, and four-manifolds of positive Ricci curvature. Ann. of Math. (2) 155 (2002), no. 3, 709–787. Yang, Paul C.; Yau, Shing-Tung Eigenvalues of the Laplacian of compact Riemann surfaces and minimal submanifolds. Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa Cl. Sci. (4) 7 (1980), no. 1, 55–63. Chanillo, Sagun; Chiu, Hung-Lin; Yang, Paul C. Embeddability for Three Dimensional Cauchy-Riemann Manifolds and CR Yamabe Invariants, Duke Math. J.,161(15), (2012), 2909–2921.