nLab conformally flat manifold

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A Riemannian manifold (X,g)(X,g) is conformally flat if it is locally taken to a flat manifold by a conformal transformation; more specifically, if there exists an open cover {U iX} iI\{U_i \to X\}_{i \in I} and on each U iU_i a smooth function f if_i, such that e f ig |U ie^{f_i} g_{\vert U_i} has vanishing Riemann curvature: R(e f ig |U i)=0R\big( e^{f_i} g_{\vert U_i} \big) = 0.

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