# EINSTEIN SPACES AND CONFORMAL VECTOR FIELDS

• KIM DONG-SOO (Department of Mathematics Chonnam National University) ;
• KIM YOUNG HO (Department of Mathematics Kyungpook National University) ;
• PARK SEONG-HEE (Department of Mathematics Chonnam National University)
• Published : 2006.01.01

#### Abstract

We study Riemannian or pseudo-Riemannian manifolds which admit a closed conformal vector field. Subject to the condition that at each point $p{\in}M^n$ the set of conformal gradient vector fields spans a non-degenerate subspace of TpM, using a warped product structure theorem we give a complete description of the space of conformal vector fields on arbitrary non-Ricci flat Einstein spaces.

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