CRITICAL POINT METRICS OF THE TOTAL SCALAR CURVATURE

In this paper, we deal with a critical point metric of the total scalar curvature on a compact manifold M. We prove that if the criti- cal point metric has parallel Ricci tensor, then the manifold is isometric to a standard sphere. Moreover, we show that if an n-dimensional Rie- mannian manifold is a warped product, or has harmonic curvature with non-parallel Ricci tensor, then it cannot be a critical point metric.