Mathematics – Differential Geometry
Scientific paper
2004-06-27
Mathematics
Differential Geometry
The references updated, comments added, the curvature invariants re-named, an extra (-1) in lemma 4.2 corrected, the numbering
Scientific paper
The Gauss-Bonnet curvature of order $2k$ is a generalization to higher dimensions of the Gauss-Bonnet integrand in dimension $2k$, as the usual scalar curvature generalizes the two dimensional Gauss-Bonnet integrand. In this paper, we evaluate the first variation of the integrals of these curvatures seen as functionals on the space of all Riemannian metrics on the manifold under consideration. An important property of this derivative is that it depends only on the curvature tensor and not on its covariant derivatives. We show that the critical points of this functional once restricted to metrics with unit volume are generalized Einstein metrics and once restricted to a pointwise conformal class of metrics are metrics with constant Gauss-Bonnet curvature.
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