RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS ADMITTING A CONFORMAL TRANSFORMATION GROUP

  1. Kentaro Yano*
  1. DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA

Abstract

Let M be a Riemannian manifold with constant scalar curvature K which admits an infinitesimal conformal transformation. A necessary and sufficient condition in order that it be isometric with a sphere is obtained.

Inequalities giving upper and lower bounds for K are also derived.

Footnotes

  • * G.A. Miller Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois.

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