A normal form for a special class of curvature operators
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Abstract:
In the case of a 4-dimensional oriented inner product space Singer and Thorpe found a canonical form for a curvature operator which commutes with a generator of ${\Lambda ^4}$, and used it to prove that the curvature function is completely determined by its critical point behavior. In dimension 5 we extend these results to curvature operators which commute with an element of ${\Lambda ^4}$.References
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Additional Information
- © Copyright 1980 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1980), 614-618
- MSC: Primary 53B20; Secondary 15A75
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1980-0572314-3
- MathSciNet review: 572314