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Bourguignon, J.P. (1981). Ricci curvature and einstein metrics. In: Ferus, D., Kühnel, W., Simon, U., Wegner, B. (eds) Global Differential Geometry and Global Analysis. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 838. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0088841

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