A variational problem for affine connections

DOI10.1007/S00013-005-1579-4MaRDI QIDQ2492902zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Osamu Kobayashi

Publication date 15 June 2006

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/11094/26340

zbMATH Keywords

variational problemEinstein metricaffine connectionstotal scalar curvatureRiemannian connectioncompact connected manifoldconnections preserving a volume elementcritical point of a functionalnegative semidefinite Ricci curvaturenormalized Einstein-Hilbert functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Calculus on manifolds; nonlinear operators (58C99) Manifolds and measure-geometric topics (49Q99) Spaces and manifolds of mappings (including nonlinear versions of 46Exx) (58D99)

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