Conformally flat spaces and a pinching problem on the Ricci tensor

Conformally flat spaces and a pinching problem on the Ricci tensor
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 86 (1982), 312-315 Request permission

Recent results of S. I. Goldberg on conformally flat manifolds and hypersurfaces of Euclidean space are extended.

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