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The aim of this note is to define almost Yamabe solitons as special conformal solutions of the Yamabe flow. Moreover, we shall obtain some rigidity results concerning Yamabe almost solitons. Finally, we shall give some characterizations for homogeneous gradient Yamabe almost solitons.
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Ezequiel Barbosa: Partially supported by CNPq-BR. Ernani Ribeiro Jr: Partially supported by FUNCAP-BR.
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Barbosa, E., Ribeiro, E. On conformal solutions of the Yamabe flow. Arch. Math. 101, 79–89 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-013-0533-0
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