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Rigidity of Bach-Flat Manifolds

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Bach-flat metrics were introduced in the study of a conformally invariant gravitational theory and has played important roles in general relativity and geometry. This metric is the most natural generalization of an Einstein metric.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2011-0025674).

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  1. Department of Mathematics Education, Inha University, Incheon, Korea

    Seongtag Kim

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  1. Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Maria del Mar González

  2. Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

    Paul C. Yang

  3. School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Nicola Gambino

  4. Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Joachim Kock

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Kim, S. (2015). Rigidity of Bach-Flat Manifolds. In: González, M., Yang, P., Gambino, N., Kock, J. (eds) Extended Abstracts Fall 2013. Trends in Mathematics(). Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21284-5_7

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