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The global geometry of the traceless Killing and Codazzi tensors on complete (in particular, compact) Riemannian manifolds is studied by methods of geometric analysis. Applications are considered.
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Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, 2021, Vol. 109, pp. 901-911 https://doi.org/10.4213/mzm11955.
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Stepanov, S.E., Tsyganok, I.I. Codazzi and Killing Tensors on a Complete Riemannian Manifold. Math Notes 109, 932–939 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001434621050266
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