Some properties of the Yamabe soliton and the related nonlinear elliptic equation

Firstly we prove the non-existence of positive radially symmetric solution of the nonlinear elliptic equation n-1/m Delta v(m) + alpha nu + beta x . del u = 0 in R-n when n >= 3, 0 < m <= n-2/n, alpha < 0 and beta <= 0 and prove various properties of the solution of the above elliptic equation for other parameter range of alpha and beta. Then these results are applied to prove some results on Yamabe solitons including the exact behaviour of the metric of the Yamabe soliton, its scalar curvature and sectional curvature, at infinity. A new proof of a result of Daskalopoulos and Sesum (The classification of locally conformally flat Yamabe solitons, http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2242) on the positivity of the sectional curvature of Yamabe solitons is also presented.