Uniqueness and non-existence of metrics with prescribed Ricci curvature (Q760921): Difference between revisions

The authors give conditions under which the Ricci tensor uniquely determines the underlying Levi-Civita connection and find restrictions on a doubly covariant tensor to be the Ricci tensor of some Riemannian metric. The results extend a result of R. Hamilton who showed that the standard metric on \(S^ n\) is uniquely determined by its Ricci tensor [see The Ricci curvature equation, preprint, MSRI (1983)].