• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.647-655
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• 2013

We obtain $C^{\infty}$-continuous paths of explicit Riemannian metrics $g_t$, $0{\leq}t$ < ${\varepsilon}$, whose scalar curvatures $s(g_t)$ decrease, where $g_0$ is a flat metric, i.e. a metric with vanishing curvature. Most of them can exist on tori of dimension ${\geq}3$. Some of them yield scalar curvature decrease on a ball in the Euclidean space.

• The Pure and Applied Mathematics
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.269-276
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• 2013

We find an explicit $C^{\infty}$-continuous path of Riemannian metrics $g_t$ on the 4-d hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^4$, for $0{\leq}t{\leq}{\varepsilon}$ for some number ${\varepsilon}$ > 0 with the following property: $g_0$ is the hyperbolic metric on $\mathbb{H}^4$, the scalar curvatures of $g_t$ are strictly decreasing in t in an open ball and $g_t$ is isometric to the hyperbolic metric in the complement of the ball.