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Conformally Osserman manifolds and self-duality in Riemannian geometry

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the spectral geometry of the conformal Jacobi operator on a 4-dimensional Riemannian manifold (M,g). We show that (M,g) is conformally Osserman if and only if (M,g) is self-dual or anti self-dual. Equivalently, this means that the curvature tensor of (M,g) is given by a quaternionic structure, at least pointwise.

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@article{arxiv.math/0504498,
  title  = {Conformally Osserman manifolds and self-duality in Riemannian geometry},
  author = {Novica Blazic and Peter Gilkey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0504498},
  year   = {2007}
}
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