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Curvature and Tachibana Numbers

Differential Geometry 2009-03-24 v1

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to define the r-th Tachibana number t(r) of an n-dimentional closed and oriented Riemannian manifold (M,g) as the dimension of the space of all conformal Killing r-forms for r=1,2,...,n-1 and to formulate some properties of these numbers as an analogue to properties of the r-th Betty number b(r) of a closed and oriented Riemannian manifold.

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@article{arxiv.0903.3824,
  title  = {Curvature and Tachibana Numbers},
  author = {Sergey E. Stepanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.3824},
  year   = {2009}
}