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Remark on a conjecture of conformal transformations of Riemannian manifolds

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Ejiri gave a negative answer to a conjecture of Lichnerowicz concerning Riemannian manifolds with constant scalar curvature admitting an infinitesimal non isometric conformal transformation. With this aim he constructed a warped product of a circle of lenght TT and a compact manifold. But he omitted in his analysis the condition that TT must to be big enough. Here we give an explicit sharp bound T0<TT_0 < T that will make the proof complete. Our presentation is self-contained and mainly uses bifurcation techniques. Moreover, we show that there are other such examples and contribute some results to the classification of these manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.math/0412341,
  title  = {Remark on a conjecture of conformal transformations of Riemannian manifolds},
  author = {A. Raouf Chouikha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0412341},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

7 pages. to appear in Rendiconti del Circolo Mat. di Palermo