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

Kairen Cai

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville 62026-1653, Illinois, USA

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.