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In this paper we study some compact locally conformally flat manifolds with a compatible metric whose scalar curvature is nonnegative, and in particular with nonnegative Ricci curvature. In the last section we study such manifolds of dimension 4 and scalar curvature identically zero.
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Noronha, M.H. Some compact conformally flat manifolds with non-negative scalar curvature. Geom Dedicata 47, 255–268 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01263660
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