Deformation and rigidity results for the 2k‐Ricci tensor and the 2k‐Gauss‐Bonnet curvature

DOI10.1002/MANA.201200228MaRDI QIDQ5397984zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tiago Caúla, L. L. de Lima, Newton Luís Santos

Publication date 25 February 2014

Published in Mathematische Nachrichten (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.1801

zbMATH Keywords

rigiditydeformationYamabe problemdouble forms\(2k\)-Gauss-Bonnet curvature\(2k\)-Ricci tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rigidity results (53C24) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05)

Abstract: We present several deformation and rigidity results within the classes of closed Riemannian manifolds which either are $2k$-Einstein (in the sense that their $2k$-Ricci tensor is constant) or have constant $2k$-Gauss-Bonnet curvature. The results hold for a family of manifolds containing all non-flat space forms and the main ingredients in the proofs are explicit formulae for the linearizations of the above invariants obtained by means of the formalism of double forms.

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