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Ricci decomposition
About: Ricci decomposition is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1972 publications have been published within this topic receiving 45295 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the Ricci curvature is bounded from below and the Riemannian curvature tensor has at most exponential growth, which is the case for Ricci solitons with constant sectional curvature.
Abstract: In this paper, we first apply an integral identity on Ricci solitons to prove that closed locally conformally flat gradient Ricci solitons are of constant sectional curvature. We then generalize this integral identity to complete noncompact gradient shrinking Ricci solitons, under the conditions that the Ricci curvature is bounded from below and the Riemannian curvature tensor has at most exponential growth. As a consequence of this identity, we classify complete locally conformally flat gradient shrinking Ricci solitons with Ricci curvature bounded from below.
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TL;DR: In this article, the wave equation for the Weyl tensor in four-dimensional nonvacuum spacetimes has been reconciled with the corresponding Weyl spinor.
Abstract: By reconciling the wave equation for the Weyl tensor with the corresponding wave equation for the Weyl spinor, we establish a new tensor identity—involving the sum of terms each consisting of a product of the Weyl and Ricci tensors—valid in four (and only four) dimensions. This enables us to give, for the first time, the correct and simplest form of the wave equation for the Weyl tensor in four-dimensional nonvacuum spacetimes. The wave equation for the Weyl tensor in n(> 4) dimensional nonvacuum spaces is also presented for the first time; we show that there does not exist an analogous n-dimensional tensor identity matching the four-dimensional one, and so it follows that there does not exist an analogous simplification of the Weyl wave equation in the n-dimensional case. It is also shown how our new identity, and some other recently discovered identities, relate to a large class of dimensionally dependent identities found some time ago by Lovelock.
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TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that even graded metrics of constant graded curvature can be supported only over a Riemannian manifold of constant curvature, and the curvature of the connection Δ′ satisfies a specific set of equations.
Abstract: Homogeneous graded metrics over split ℤ2-graded manifolds whose Levi-Civita connection is adapted to a given splitting, in the sense recently introduced by Koszul, are completely described. A subclass of such is singled out by the vanishing of certain components of the graded curvature tensor, a condition that plays a role similar to the closedness of a graded symplectic form in graded symplectic geometry: It amounts to determining a graded metric by the data {g, ω, Δ′}, whereg is a metric tensor onM, ω 0 is a fibered nondegenerate skewsymmetric bilinear form on the Batchelor bundleE → M, and Δ′ is a connection onE satisfying Δ′ω = 0. Odd metrics are also studied under the same criterion and they are specified by the data {κ, Δ′}, with κ ∈ Hom (TM, E) invertible, and Δ′κ = 0. It is shown in general that even graded metrics of constant graded curvature can be supported only over a Riemannian manifold of constant curvature, and the curvature of Δ′ onE satisfiesRΔ′ (X,Y)2 = 0. It is shown that graded Ricci flat even metrics are supported over Ricci flat manifolds and the curvature of the connection Δ′ satisfies a specific set of equations. 0 Finally, graded Einstein even metrics can be supported only over Ricci flat Riemannian manifolds. Related results for graded metrics on Ω(M) are also discussed.
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TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that we can obtain a metric with a finite dimensional Lie algebra of Weyl symmetries that properly contains the Lie algebra for curvature tensors.
Abstract: Though the Weyl tensor is a linear combination of the curvature tensor, Ricci tensor and Ricci scalar, it does not have all and only the Lie symmetries of these tensors since it is possible, in principle, that "asymmetries cancel". Here we investigate if, when and how the symmetries can be different. It is found that we can obtain a metric with a finite dimensional Lie algebra of Weyl symmetries that properly contains the Lie algebra of curvature symmetries. There is no example found for the converse requirement. It is speculated that there may be a fundamental reason for this lack of "duality".
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TL;DR: In this article, the supremum of the possible t such that there is a K\"ahler metric in c_1(M) with Ricci curvature bounded below by t is studied.
Abstract: On a Fano manifold M we study the supremum of the possible t such that there is a K\"ahler metric in c_1(M) with Ricci curvature bounded below by t. This is shown to be the same as the maximum existence time of Aubin's continuity path for finding K\"ahler-Einstein metrics. We show that on P^2 blown up in one point this supremum is 6/7, and we give upper bounds for other manifolds.
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