Is there any known class of conformal transformations ϕ:M→M of a riemannian/semi-riemanian manifold (M,g) that have the property: g is ricci-positive iff ϕ∗g ricci positive?
There trivial answer is when ϕ∗g=cg for a constant c. Do we know something more than that? It seems that there are some results for maps that preserve the ricci curvature at each point (e.g. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021782407000839 )
If we allow for not-conformal transformation is there something more we can say?
This post imported from StackExchange MathOverflow at 2017-02-02 22:58 (UTC), posted by SE-user Zakk