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A sphere theorem for Bach-flat manifolds with positive constant scalar curvature

Differential Geometry 2017-04-24 v1

Abstract

We show a closed Bach-flat Riemannian manifold with a fixed positive constant scalar curvature has to be locally spherical if its Weyl and traceless Ricci tensors are small in the sense of either LL^\infty or Ln2L^{\frac{n}{2}}-norm. Compared with the complete non-compact case done by Kim, we apply a different method to achieve these results. These results generalize a rigidity theorem of positive Einstein manifolds due to M.-A.Singer. As an application, we can partially recover the well-known Chang-Gursky-Yang's 44-dimensional conformal sphere theorem.

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@article{arxiv.1704.06633,
  title  = {A sphere theorem for Bach-flat manifolds with positive constant scalar curvature},
  author = {Yi Fang and Wei Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.06633},
  year   = {2017}
}

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