Prescribing a Ricci tensor in a conformal class of Riemannian metrics
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Abstract:
We show that two pointwise conformal metrics that have the same Ricci tensor must be homothetic.References
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- © Copyright 1992 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 115 (1992), 455-459
- MSC: Primary 53C21; Secondary 53A30, 58G30
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1992-1093607-8
- MathSciNet review: 1093607