# RICCI AND SCALAR CURVATURES ON SU(3)

• Kim, Hyun-Woong (Department of Applied Mathematics, Pukyong National University) ;
• Pyo, Yong-Soo (Department of Applied Mathematics, Pukyong National University) ;
• Shin, Hyun-Ju (Department of Applied Mathematics, Pukyong National University)
• Accepted : 2012.04.03
• Published : 2012.06.25

#### Abstract

In this paper, we obtain the Ricci curvature and the scalar curvature on SU(3) with some left invariant Riemannian metric. And then we get a necessary and sufficient condition for the scalar curvature (resp. the Ricci curvature) on the Riemannian manifold SU(3) to be positive.

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