Reducible Riemannian manifolds with conformal product structures

Abstract

We study conformal product structures on compact reducible Riemannian manifolds, and show that under a suitable technical assumption, the underlying Riemannian mani\-folds are either conformally flat, or triple products, \emph{i.e.} locally isometric to Riemannian manifolds of the form $(M,g)$ with $M=M_1\times M_2\times M_3$ and $g=e^{2f}{g}_1+g_2+g_3$, where $g_i$ is a Riemannian metric on $M_i$, for $i\in \{1,2,3\}$, and $f\in C^{\infty }(M_1\times M_2)$.

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