Characterizing spheres and Euclidean spaces by conformal vector fields (Q1681832)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6812667
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Characterizing spheres and Euclidean spaces by conformal vector fields
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6812667

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    Characterizing spheres and Euclidean spaces by conformal vector fields (English)
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    24 November 2017
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    The author uses conformal vector fields on complete Riemannian manifolds to characterize spheres of constant curvature and Euclidean spaces.
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    conformal vector fields
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    Ricci curvature
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    scalar curvature
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    Obata's theorem
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    Laplace operator
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