2011Annales de l’institut FourierOpen access

The Evolution of the Weyl Tensor under the Ricci Flow

Giovanni Catino, Carlo Mantegazza

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We compute the evolution equation of the Weyl tensor under the Ricci flow of a Riemannian manifold and we discuss some consequences for the classification of locally conformally flat Ricci solitons.

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We compute the evolution equation of the Weyl tensor under the Ricci flow of a Riemannian manifold and we discuss some consequences for the classification of locally conformally flat Ricci solitons.

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We compute the evolution equation of the Weyl tensor under the Ricci flow of a Riemannian manifold and we discuss some consequences for the classification of locally conformally flat Ricci solitons.

Key concepts: Ricci flow, Weyl tensor, Ricci decomposition, Ricci curvature, Lanczos tensor, Tensor (intrinsic definition), Mathematical physics, Mathematics

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