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 with harmonic curvature and -nonnegative curvature operator of the second kind must be Einstein. In particular, We show that complete Einstein manifolds of dimension with -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