published with the invited addresses for reasons of space and editorial convenience. 1 Also called mean curvature; the definition will be restated later in the text. Interesting facts relating Ricci curvature to Riemann curvature have been given by T. Y. Thomas, On the variation of curvature in Riemann spaces of constant mean curvature,
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