The classification of complete locally conformally flat manifolds of nonnegative Ricci curvature (Q1318185): Difference between revisions

The author gives a classification of complete locally conformally flat manifolds of nonnegative Ricci curvature. Such classification for the compact case was obtained by various authors as consequences of investigating more general classes of manifolds. Basing on the developing map the author proves that if \((M^ n, g)\) is a complete locally conformally flat Riemannian manifold with \(\text{Ric}(g) \geq 0\), then the universal cover \(\tilde{M}\) of \(M\) with the pulled-back metric is either conformally equivalent to \(S^ n\), \(\mathbb{R}^ n\) or is isometric to \(\mathbb{R} \times S^{n - 1}\), where \(S^ n\) and \(S^{n - 1}\) are spheres of constant curvature. Moreover, he shows that if \((M^ n, g)\) is a compact locally conformally flat manifold with \(\text{Ric} \geq - \Lambda^ 2\), \(\text{diam}(M) \leq D\), then \(b_ i(M,\mathbb{R}) \leq C(n,\Lambda D)\) for any \(i\), where \(C(n, \Lambda D)\) is a constant depending only on \(n\) and \(\Lambda D\).