“…It is not hard to find examples of spaces (Z, k), even with just isolated conic singularities, where −L n k is not even semi-bounded, which simply amounts to the fact that c(n) Scal k diverges to −∞ like −c/r 2 with leading coefficient larger c than the permissible Hardy estimate bound (f − 1) 2 /4. This question is closely related to the problems studied in [20], see also [10] and [2] One further point which requires explanation is that in using condition 2), we use a conformal factor w which has leading coefficient along Σ equal to the eigenfunction w 0 for −L n k corresponding to the eigenvalue c(n)f (f −1). In order to stay with the class of iterated edge metrics, it is necessary that w 0 be bounded above and strictly positive, and this may fail.…”