We discuss the notion of isotropic curvature of a Riemannian manifold and relations between the sign of this curvature and the geometry and topology of the manifold.
Mots clés : Weyl Curvature, Euler Characteristic, Chern-Gauss-Bonnet Theorem, Asymptotically Flat Manifolds, Yamabe metric.
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author = {Seshadri, Harish},
title = {Isotropic curvature: {A} survey},
journal = {S\'eminaire de th\'eorie spectrale et g\'eom\'etrie},
pages = {139--144},
publisher = {Institut Fourier},
address = {Grenoble},
volume = {26},
year = {2007-2008},
doi = {10.5802/tsg.264},
zbl = {1183.53032},
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language = {en},
url = {http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.5802/tsg.264/}
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Seshadri, Harish. Isotropic curvature: A survey. Séminaire de théorie spectrale et géométrie, Tome 26 (2007-2008), pp. 139-144. doi : 10.5802/tsg.264. http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.5802/tsg.264/
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