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Manifolds with harmonic curvature and curvature operator of the second kind

Differential Geometry 2026-02-10 v2

Abstract

We prove that complete Riemannian manifolds of dimension n3n\ge3 with harmonic curvature and n(n+2)2(n+1)\frac{n(n+2)}{2(n+1)}-nonnegative curvature operator of the second kind must be Einstein. In particular, We show that complete Einstein manifolds of dimension n4n\ge4 with 3n(n1)2(n+2)2(5n3+3n230n+16)\frac{3n(n-1)^2(n+2)}{2(5n^3+3n^2-30n+16)}-nonnegative curvature operator of the second kind must be of constant curvature, which generalizes the work of Dai-Fu \cite{DF}.

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@article{arxiv.2601.02722,
  title  = {Manifolds with harmonic curvature and curvature operator of the second kind},
  author = {Haiping Fu and Yao Lu and Zhilin Dai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.02722},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

Corrected some minor errors and added a small section