Here we are concerned with the compactness of metrics on the disk with prescribed
Gaussian and geodesic curvatures. We consider a blowing up sequence of metrics and
give a precise description of its asymptotic behavior. In particular, the metrics
blow-up at a unique point on the boundary and we are able to give necessary
conditions on its location. It turns out that such conditions depend locally on the
Gaussian curvatures but they depend on the geodesic curvatures in a nonlocal way.
This is a novelty with respect to the classical Nirenberg problem where the
blow-up conditions are local, and this new aspect is driven by the boundary
condition.
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