Conformally invariant Cotton and Bach tensor in N-dimensions
Differential Geometry
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
This paper presents conformal invariants for Riemannian manifolds of dimension greater than or equal to four whose vanishing is necessary for a Riemannian manifold to be conformally related to an Einstein space. One of the invariants is a modification of the Cotton tensor, the other is a --dimensional version of the Bach tensor. In general both tensors are smooth only on an open and dense subset of , but this subset is invariant under conformal transformations. Moreover, we generalize the main result of "Conformal Einstein Spaces in --Dimensions" published in \emph{Ann. Global Anal. Geom.} {\bf 20}(2) (2001).
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@article{arxiv.math/0408224,
title = {Conformally invariant Cotton and Bach tensor in N-dimensions},
author = {Mario Listing},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0408224},
year = {2007}
}
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13 pages