COMPARISON OF EINSTEIN MANIFOLDS WITH THORPE MANIFOLDS

  • Kim, Ho-Bub (Department of Mathematics, Yonsei University) ;
  • Kim, Jae-Man (Department of Mathematics, Yonsei University)
  • Published : 2000.02.01

Abstract

On Riemannian manifolds of dimension 4 the Einstein condition is equivalent to the Thorpe condition. In this paper, we construct a few metrics which we Einstein but not Thorpe, and vice versa in dimensions larger than 4.

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