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In this paper we examine different aspects of the geometry of closed conformal vector fields on Riemannian manifolds. We begin by getting obstructions to the existence of closed conformal and nonparallel vector fields on complete manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-04-01 A. Caminha

Let $(M,g)$ be a noncompact complete Bach-flat manifold with positive Yamabe constant. We prove that $(M,g)$ is flat if $(M, g)$ has zero scalar curvature and sufficiently small $L_{2}$ bound of curvature tensor. When $(M, g)$ has…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-19 Seongtag Kim

We provide conditions for a Riemannian manifold with a nontrivial closed affine conformal Killing vector field to be isometric to a Euclidean sphere or to the Euclidean space. Also, we formulate some triviality results for almost Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Adara M. Blaga , Bang-Yen Chen

Let $(M,g)$ be a compact connected spin manifold of dimension $n\geq 3$ whose Yamabe invariant is positive. We assume that $(M,g)$ is locally conformally flat or that $n \in \{3,4,5\}$. According to a positive mass theorem of Witten, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-25 Bernd Ammann , Emmanuel Humbert

A study of proper conformal vector field in non conformally flat cylindrically symmetric static space-times is given by using direct integration technique. Using the above mentioned technique we have shown that a very special class of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-11-09 Ghulam Shabbir , Shaukat Iqbal

Let $(M,g)$ be a compact Riemannian manifold on dimension $n \geq 4$ not conformally diffeomorphic to the sphere $S^n$. We prove that a smooth function $f$ on $M$ is a critical function for a metric $\tilde{g}$ conformal to $g$ if and only…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Emmanuel Humbert , Michel Vaugon

The celebrated Nash Embedding Theorem asserts that every closed Riemannian manifold can be isometrically embedded into a sufficiently high-dimensional Euclidean space. In this paper, we prove an analogous result in the conformally compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Marco Usula

Let $(M^m,g)$ be an $m$-dimensional closed Riemannian manifold with non-negative sectional curvatures, $m\ge 3$. We define a conformal invariant and prove that, if the conformal invariant is bounded from above by a constant depending only…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Hang Chen

We study the relation between the existence of null conformal Killing vector fields and existence of compatible complex and para-hypercomplex structures on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold with metric of signature (2,2). We establish first the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Johann Davidov , Gueo Grantcharov , Oleg Mushkarov

In this paper we develop the basic tools for a classification of Killing vector fields of constant length on pseudo--riemannian homogeneous spaces. This extends a recent paper of M. Xu and J. A. Wolf, which classified the pairs $(M,\xi)$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Joseph A. Wolf , Fabio Podestà , Ming Xu

The goal of this article is to study the space of smooth Riemannian structures on compact manifolds with boundary that satisfies a critical point equation associated with a boundary value problem. We provide an integral formula which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-10 H. Baltazar , E. Ribeiro

In this article, we investigate critical metrics of the volume functional on complete manifolds without boundary. We prove that any critical metric of the volume functional on a connected, complete manifold with parallel Ricci tensor is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Caio Coimbra , Rafael Diógenes , Ernani Ribeiro

We extend the following result of Cochran ``A closed $m$-quasi Einstein manifold ($M,g,X$) with $m \ne -2$ has constant scalar curvature if and only if $X$ is Killing" covering the missing accidental case $m=-2$ and generalize it showing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Ramesh Sharma

Let $(M^n,g)$, $n \ge 4$, be a compact simply-connected Riemannian manifold with nonnegative isotropic curvature. Given $0<l\le L$, we prove that there exists $\eps = \eps (l,L,n)$ satisfying the following: If the scalar curvature $s$ of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-07 Harish Seshadri

The study of stable minimal surfaces in Riemannian $3$-manifolds $(M, g)$ with non-negative scalar curvature has a rich history. In this paper, we prove rigidity of such surfaces when $(M, g)$ is asymptotically flat and has horizon…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Alessandro Carlotto , Otis Chodosh , Michael Eichmair

In this paper, it is proved that any conformal vector field is homothetic on a locally projectively flat $(\alpha,\beta)$-space of non-Randers type in dimension $n\ge 3$, and the local solutions of such a vector field are determined. While…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-13 Guojun Yang

Let \((M^n,g)\) be a smooth closed Riemannian manifold of dimension \(n \ge 5\) with positive Yamabe invariant and semi-positive \(Q\)-curvature. We establish a precompactness result in the \(C^{\alpha}\)-H\"older topologie on the space of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Zeinab Mcheik

Let $(M,g)$ be an $n$-dimensional asymptotically flat Riemannian manifold with nonnegative scalar curvature that admits a noncompact area-minimizing hypersurface $\Sigma \subset M$. In the case where $n = 3$, O. Chodosh and the first-named…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Michael Eichmair , Thomas Koerber

We show that a complete gradient Ricci soliton $(M^n,\,g)$ with constant scalar curvature and a non-parallel closed conformal vector field is isometric to either the Euclidean space, or an Euclidean sphere, or negatively Einstein warped…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-28 J. F. Siva Filho , R. Sharma

We prove that if $(M^n,g)$, $n \ge 4$, is a compact, orientable, locally irreducible Riemannian manifold with nonnegative isotropic curvature, then one of the following possibilities hold: (i) $M$ admits a metric with positive isotropic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-11 Harish Seshadri