A remark on the Bochner technique in differential geometry

Wu, H.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1980-0553384-5

A remark on the Bochner technique in differential geometry
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Abstract:

It is observed that by pushing the standard arguments one step further, almost all the theorems in differential geometry proved with the help of Bochner’s technique can be sharpened.

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