A well-known open question in differential geometry is the question of whether a given compact Riemannian manifold is necessarily conformally equivalent to one of constant scalar curvature. This problem is known as the Yamabe problem because it was formulated by Yamabe [8] in 1960, While Yamabe's paper claimed to solve the problem in the affirmative, it was found by N. Trudinger [6] in 1968 tha...

We present some results in [9], a continuation of our earlier works [7] and [8]. One result is the existence and compactness of solutions to a fully nonlinear version of the Yamabe problem on locally conformally flat Riemannian manifolds, and the other is a Harnack type inequality for general conformally invariant fully nonlinear second order elliptic equations. Let (M, g) be an n−dimensional, ...

This can be compared to the fact that a conformally flat manifold of dimension n > 2 is locally conformal to a region of the sphere of the same dimension. In twistor theory, it is well-known that an even dimensional conformally flat manifold has an integrable twistor space ([7], [6], [1], [3]). It is interesting, as an analogy, that a Bochner-Kähler manifold has integrable twistor spaces define...