Schouten tensor and some topological properties

In this paper, we prove a cohomology vanishing theorem on locally conformally flat manifold under certain positivity assumption on the Schouten tensor. And we show that this type of positivity of curvature is preserved under $0$-surgeries for general Riemannian manifolds, and construct a large class of such manifolds.

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Published 1 January 2005