Weyl–Schouten theorem

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by AnomieBOT (talk | contribs) at 13:53, 9 July 2015 (Dating maintenance tags: {{Noref}}). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

The Weyl–Schouten theorem in mathematics (named after Hermann Weyl and Jan Arnoldus Schouten) says that a Riemannian manifold of dimension n with n ≥ 3 is conformally flat if and only if the Schouten tensor is a Codazzi tensor for n = 3, or the Weyl tensor vanishes for n > 3.