Existence of metrics with prescribed Ricci curvature: Local theory

DOI10.1007/BF01389010zbMath0489.53014MaRDI QIDQ1166783

Dennis M. DeTurck

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/142846

zbMATH Keywords

integrability condition; Ricci tensor; Nash-Moser implicit function theorem; analytic metrics; contracted second Bianchi identity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35J60: Nonlinear elliptic equations

35A20: Analyticity in context of PDEs

53B20: Local Riemannian geometry

58C15: Implicit function theorems; global Newton methods on manifolds

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