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How is this product of tensors defined?

I am reading the paper “ The first eigenvalue of a small geodesic ball in a riemannian manifold”, by Karp and Pinsky, from where I took the following: Here, $\Delta_{-2}$ denotes the usual Laplacian ...
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Obtaining the metric from the mixed Ricci tensor $R^i{}_j$

In chapter 5 of the book "Einstein Manifolds", Arthur Besse discusses the possibility to find the metric $g$ when knowing the Ricci curvature tensor $Ric(g)$ ($=R_{ij}$). But what do we know about ...
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The Ricci curvature is bounded below by scalar curvature

So I have more questions coming from Dr Hamilton's "Three-Manifolds with Positive Ricci Curvature" paper here. I'm working in section 9 on Preserving Positive Ricci Curvature. In theorem 9.4,...
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For a manifold of positive curvature, can we lower bound the distance between unit normals?

Suppose $M \subset \mathbb R^d$ is a $C^2$ $(d-1)$-manifold. In particular I am interested in when $M$ is the set $\{x \in \mathbb R^d: f(x) \le 1\}$ for some $C^2$ function $f:\mathbb R^d \to \...
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