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Riemannian manifolds with positive Yamabe invariant and Paneitz operator

Differential Geometry 2015-04-14 v3

Abstract

For a Riemannian manifold with dimension at least six, we prove that the existence of a conformal metric with positive scalar and Q curvature is equivalent to the positivity of both the Yamabe invariant and the Paneitz operator.

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@article{arxiv.1502.01050,
  title  = {Riemannian manifolds with positive Yamabe invariant and Paneitz operator},
  author = {Matthew J. Gursky and Fengbo Hang and Yueh-Ju Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.01050},
  year   = {2015}
}