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Conformal Killing forms on Riemannian manifolds

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Conformal Killing forms are a natural generalization of conformal vector fields on Riemannian manifolds. They are defined as sections in the kernel of a conformally invariant first order differential operator. We show the existence of conformal Killing forms on nearly Kaehler and weak G_2-manifolds. Moreover, we give a complete description of special conformal Killing forms. A further result is a sharp upper bound on the dimension of the space of conformal Killing forms.

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@article{arxiv.math/0206117,
  title  = {Conformal Killing forms on Riemannian manifolds},
  author = {U. Semmelmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0206117},
  year   = {2007}
}

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24 pages

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