On compact Riemannian manifolds admitting a certain function

DOI10.2996/kmj/1138036856zbMath0554.53031WikidataQ115224640 ScholiaQ115224640MaRDI QIDQ760028

Kazuhiro Matsushita

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Kodai Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2996/kmj/1138036856

zbMATH Keywords

differentiable functions; Obata's theorem; characterizations of spheres

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C20: Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching

58J60: Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.)