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Abstract It is well known that no non-trivial Killing vector field exists on a compact Riemannian manifold of negative Ricci curvature; analogously, no non-trivial harmonic one-form exists on a compact manifold of positive Ricci curvature. One can consider the following, more general, problem. By reducing the assumption on the Ricci curvature to one on the scalar curvature, such vanishing theorems cannot hold in general. This raises the question: “What information can we obtain from the existence of non-trivial Killing vector fields (or, respectively, harmonic one-forms)?” This paper gives answers to this problem; the results obtained are optimal. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification 53C20 (primary), 53C24 (secondary). © London Mathematical Society
Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society – Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 1, 2004
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