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Title: Killing Fields on Compact m-Quasi-Einstein Manifolds

Authors: Eric Cochran
Abstract: We show that given a compact, connected $m$-quasi Einstein manifold $(M,g,X)$ without boundary, the potential vector field $X$ is Killing if and only if $(M, g)$ has constant scalar curvature. This extends a result of Bahuaud-Gunasekaran-Kunduri-Woolgar, where it is shown that $X$ is Killing if $X$ is incompressible. We also provide a sufficient condition for a compact, non-gradient $m$-quasi Einstein metric to admit a Killing field. We do this by following a technique of Dunajski and Lucietti, who prove that a Killing field always exists in this case when $m=2$. This condition provides an alternate proof of the aforementioned result of Bahuaud-Gunasekaran-Kunduri-Woolgar. This alternate proof works in the $m = -2$ case as well, which was not covered in the original proof.
Comments: 8 pages
Subjects: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
Cite as: arXiv:2404.17090 [math.DG]
  (or arXiv:2404.17090v1 [math.DG] for this version)

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From: Eric Cochran [view email]
[v1] Fri, 26 Apr 2024 00:50:04 GMT (285kb)

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