International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 11 (1988), Issue 4, Pages 675-682
doi:10.1155/S0161171288000821
An application of stress energy tensor to the vanishing theorem of differential forms
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville 62026-1653, Illinois, USA
Received 29 September 1987
Copyright © 1988 Kairen Cai. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The author applies the stress energy of differential forms to study the vanishing theorems of the Liouville type. It is shown that for a large class of underlying manifolds such as the Euclidean n-space, the complex n-space, and the complex hyperbolic space form, if any vector bundle valued p-form with conservative stress energy tensor is of finite norm or slowly divergent norm, then the p-form vanishes. This generalizes the recent results due to Hu and Sealey.