Critical metrics of the Schouten functional

DOI10.1007/s00022-010-0057-8zbMath1208.58015OpenAlexW2032499302MaRDI QIDQ622553

Seiki Nishikawa, Udo Simon, Ze-Jun Hu

Publication date: 3 February 2011

Published in: Journal of Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00022-010-0057-8

zbMATH Keywords

Schouten tensorconformally flat metricSchouten functionalself-dual metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Critical metrics (58E11) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17)

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