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De Lellis and Topping proved an almost-Schur lemma for the closed manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature. In this article, we study general closed manifolds and obtain a generalization of their theorem.
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Cheng, X. A generalization of almost-Schur lemma for closed Riemannian manifolds. Ann Glob Anal Geom 43, 153–160 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10455-012-9339-8
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