DE RHAM DECOMPOSITION FOR RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS WITH BOUNDARY*

  • Chengjie YU
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  • Department of Mathematics, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, China
Chengjie YU,E-mail: cjyu@stu.edu.cn

Received date: 2021-09-15

  Revised date: 2022-06-29

  Online published: 2023-03-01

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*Research partially supported by GDNSF (2021A1515010264) and NNSF of China (11571215).

Abstract

In this paper, we extend the classical de Rham decomposition theorem to the case of Riemannian manifolds with boundary by using the trick of the development of curves.

Cite this article

Chengjie YU . DE RHAM DECOMPOSITION FOR RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS WITH BOUNDARY*[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2023 , 43(1) : 51 -62 . DOI: 10.1007/s10473-023-0104-9

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