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1. Expanded motivation section and wrote a bit on coordinate representation.

2. Thanks very much!

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• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeJun 18th 2019

added this pointer:

A conjecture that all compact Ricci flat manifolds either have special holonomy or else are “unstable”:

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• CommentAuthorPaoloPerrone
• CommentTimeJun 19th 2019

The page says that Ricci curvature is a differential 2-form, but the Ricci curvature (tensor) is actually symmetric. Is there anything that I’m missing, or can I correct it?

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• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeJun 19th 2019

Thanks for catching this. I have fixed it now. But please feel invited to further expand.

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