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On the projective Ricci curvature

Differential Geometry 2020-08-05 v1

Abstract

The notion of the Ricci curvature is defined for sprays on a manifold. With a volume form on a manifold, every spray can be deformed to a projective spray. The Ricci curvature of a projective spray is called the projective Ricci curvature. In this paper, we introduce the notion of projectively Ricci-flat sprays. We establish a global rigidity result for projectively Ricci-flat sprays with nonnegative Ricci curvature. Then we study and characterize projectively Ricci-flat Randers metrics.

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@article{arxiv.2008.01350,
  title  = {On the projective Ricci curvature},
  author = {Zhongmin Shen and Liling Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.01350},
  year   = {2020}
}