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Riemannian Geometry is a subfield of Differential Geometry, which specifically studies "Riemannian Manifolds", manifolds with "Riemannian Metrics", which means that they are equipped with continuous inner products.

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Tensor component calculation

Start by writing $$ \tag{1}\label{1} B_{nn} = \nabla^\mu \nabla^\nu C_{\mu n n \nu} - \frac{1}{2}C_{\mu n n \nu}R^{\mu\nu} . $$ Here I abuse notation to write $\nabla^\mu\nabla^\nu C_{\mu n n \nu} = n …
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Locally conformally flat

The connected sum of two locally conformally flat manifolds can be equipped with a metrics which is locally conformally flat. To see this, recall that the product metric on $\mathbb{R} \times S^{n-1} …
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Expansion of metric near boundary of 3 dimensional Poincaré-Einstein/hyperbolic manifolds

This is only an answer to the request for references about the expansion and an interpretation of $h_2$ from the standpoint of the metric $x^2g$. Theorem 7.4 in the book The Ambient Metric proves that …
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Does any warped product metric admit a function with hessian proportional to the metric?

Yes. (With the caveat that if there is a function such that $\nabla^2\varphi = \psi g$, then necessarily it is a warped product over a one-dimensional base, so your question should really require $\d …
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Lee-Parker Yamabe problem proposition 4.6

You are forgetting that, as part of the renormalization, the functions $\psi_s$ all satisfy $\psi_s(-P)=1$ (here $-P$ is the south pole). In particular, since $\psi$ is $C^2$ away from the north pole …
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Finding a hyperbolic metric with geodesic boundary on a given Riemann surface

See Theorem 1(b) in the following paper; it is enough that the boundary is smooth. Osgood, B.; Phillips, R.; Sarnak, P. Extremals of determinants of Laplacians. J. Funct. Anal. 80 (1988), no. 1, 148-- …
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Definition of the conformal metric

Let $(M,[g])$ be a conformal manifold; i.e. $(M,g)$ is a Riemannian manifold and $[g] = \{ u^2g \mathrel{}:\mathrel{} u \in C^\infty(M), u>0 \}$ is the set of Riemannian metrics conformal to $g$. It i …
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What are some explicit examples of nontrivial gradient almost Ricci solitons with harmonic c...

The Riemannian product $\mathbb{R}^m \times S^n$ is always of this type, where $\mathbb{R}^m$ is given the flat metric and $S^n$ the round metric of constant sectional curvature one. In this case $\l …
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How to calculate the infimum of Yamabe functional on upper hemisphere

The first observation is that $Q_g(\phi)$ is conformally invariant. Define \begin{align*} L_gu & := -\Delta u + \frac{n-2}{4(n-1)}Ru , \\ B_gu & := \partial_\nu u + \frac{n-2}{2}Hu , \end{align*} wh …
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Yamabe operator, conformal transformations and square of the Dirac operator

The discrepancy comes from the fact that the square of the Dirac operator is in general not conformally covariant. There are ways to modify powers of the Dirac operator to get a conformally covariant …
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Trace and divergence of the Bach tensor

The Bach tensor is only divergence-free in dimension four. In general dimension, it holds that $\nabla^j B_{ij} = (n-4)P^{jk} ( \nabla_i P_{jk} - \nabla_j P_{ik} )$. I pulled this formula from the b …
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Example of shrinking Ricci soliton

Yes: Take the shrinking Gaussian $(\mathbb{R}^n, dx^2)$ with $X=\rho\nabla\rho$, where $\rho$ denotes the distance to the origin. This space is Ricci flat, so your inequality holds.
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Geometric interpretation of the Weyl tensor?

There is such an interpretation, with a few caveats. Essentially, there is a canonical connection on a certain vector bundle for which the "principal part" of the curvature is the Weyl tensor in dime …
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On equation $\Delta \circ \partial/\partial X=\partial/\partial X \circ \Delta$ on a Riemann...

This is an expansion on Igor's comment and fixes my previous mistake (see also Willie's answer). A direct computation gives $$ D(f) = 2f^{ab}\nabla_{(a}X_{b)} + X_a(\nabla^b\nabla_b\nabla^a-\nabla^a\ …
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Einstein warped product manifold Ricci flat

If you also assume that $(N,\ddot g)$ is complete, then your assumptions imply that $(N,\ddot g)$ is Ricci flat. I proved this in my article The nonexistence of quasi-Einstein metrics.
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