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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 nn--dimensional version of the Bach tensor. In general both tensors are smooth only on an open and dense subset of MM, but this subset is invariant under conformal transformations. Moreover, we generalize the main result of "Conformal Einstein Spaces in NN--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

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