Conformal vector fields on pseudo-Riemannian spaces

Differential Geometry and its Application

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 237-250

  Kühnel, Wolfgang ^a,b   Rademacher, Hans Bert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conformal gradient field; Constant scalar curvature; Einstein spaces; Warped product

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031231861     PISSN: 09262245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-2245(96)00052-6     Document Type: Article

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