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On metrics of positive Ricci curvature conformal to M × 𝐑 m

Juan Miguel Ruiz (2009)

Archivum Mathematicum

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Let ( M n , g ) be a closed Riemannian manifold and g E the Euclidean metric. We show that for m > 1 , M n × 𝐑 m , ( g + g E ) is not conformal to a positive Einstein manifold. Moreover, M n × 𝐑 m , ( g + g E ) is not conformal to a Riemannian manifold of positive Ricci curvature, through a radial, integrable, smooth function, ϕ : 𝐑 𝐦 → 𝐑 + , for m > 1 . These results are motivated by some recent questions on Yamabe constants.

The spectral geometry of the Weyl conformal tensor

N. Blažić, P. Gilkey, S. Nikčević, U. Simon (2005)

Banach Center Publications

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We study when the Jacobi operator associated to the Weyl conformal curvature tensor has constant eigenvalues on the bundle of unit spacelike or timelike tangent vectors. This leads to questions in the conformal geometry of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds which generalize the Osserman conjecture to this setting. We also study similar questions related to the skew-symmetric curvature operator defined by the Weyl conformal curvature tensor.

Conformal deformations of the Riemannian metrics and homogeneous Riemannian spaces

Eugene D. Rodionov, Viktor V. Slavskii (2002)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

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In this paper we investigate one-dimensional sectional curvatures of Riemannian manifolds, conformal deformations of the Riemannian metrics and the structure of locally conformally homogeneous Riemannian manifolds. We prove that the nonnegativity of the one-dimensional sectional curvature of a homogeneous Riemannian space attracts nonnegativity of the Ricci curvature and we show that the inverse is incorrect with the help of the theorems O. Kowalski-S. Nikčevi'c [K-N], D. Alekseevsky-B....