Conformal deformations of the Ebin metric and a generalized Calabi metric on the space of Riemannian metrics

Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (C) Analyse Non Lineaire

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 251-274

  Clarke, Brian ^a   Rubinstein, Yanir A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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GEODESIC EQUATIONS; NONLOCAL; RIEMANNIAN METRICS;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 84875755704     PISSN: 02941449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anihpc.2012.07.003     Document Type: Article

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