“…Ben Ayed-El Mehdi-Ould Ahmedou [9], [10] gave some topological conditions on K to prescribe the scalar curvature under minimal boundary conditions on half spheres of dimension n ≥ 4. Note that problem (P ) is in some sense related to the well known scalar curvature problem −Δ g u + (n(n − 2)/4)u = Ku (n+2)/(n−2) , u > 0 in S n (3) to which much work has been devoted (see [3,4,7,13,14,[19][20][21] and the references therein). As for (3), there are topological obstructions of Kazdan-Warner type to solve (P ) (see [11]) and so a natural question arises: under which conditions on K, (P ) has a positive solution?…”