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Definition
Given data
A connected differential manifold .
Definition part
A conformal structure on associates to a class of conformally equivalent metrics, viz it associates to a Riemannian metric that is loose upto conformal equivalence.
Thus, every Riemannian metric gives a conformal structure and every conformal structure arises from a Riemannian metric, but different Riemannian metrics may give rise to the same conformal structure.
Facts
Volume-normalization of a conformal structure
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