TY - JOUR T1 - A class of existence results for the singular Liouville equation JF - Comptes Rendus Mathematique 349 (2011) 161-166 Y1 - 2011 A1 - Alessandro Carlotto A1 - Andrea Malchiodi AB - We consider a class of elliptic PDEs on closed surfaces with exponential nonlinearities and Dirac deltas on the right-hand side. The study arises from abelian Chern–Simons theory in self-dual regime, or from the problem of prescribing the Gaussian curvature in presence of conical singularities. A general existence result is proved using global variational methods: the analytic problem is reduced to a topological problem concerning the contractibility of a model space, the so-called space of formal barycenters, characterizing the very low sublevels of a suitable functional. PB - Elsevier UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/5793 U1 - 5648 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications U4 - -1 ER -