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A formal Riemannian structure on conformal classes and uniqueness for the $\sigma_2$–Yamabe problem

Matthew Gursky and Jeffrey Streets

Geometry & Topology 22 (2018) 3501–3573

DOI: 10.2140/gt.2018.22.3501

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