A note on conformal vector fields and positive curvature

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Authors Da-Gang Yang

Publication date 21 June 1995

Published in Illinois Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

conformal vector fieldKilling vector fieldsectional curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

Review text

The author proves the following result. Theorem. On a closed odd-dimensional Riemannian manifold of positive sectional curvature every two commuting conformal vector fields are dependent at least on one point. To prove the theorem the author shows that the existence of two commuting pointwise linearly independent conformal vector fields implies the vanishing of the sectional curvature somewhere.

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