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The prescribed curvature problem in dimension four.

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2009
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Necessary and sufficient conditions for a g-valued differential 2-form on a 4-dimensional manifold to be, locally, a curvature; form, are given. The dimension four is exceptional for the problem of prescribed curvature as, in this dimension, Bianchi's identities can be eliminated for a large class of Lie algebras, including semisimple algebras. Hence, the curvature forms are characterized as the solutions to a second-order partial differential system, which is proved to be formally integrable.
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