An almost-Schur type lemma for symmetric $(2,0)$ tensors and applications

Abstract: In our previous paper in \cite{C}, we generalized the almost-Schur lemma of De Lellis and Topping for closed manifolds with nonnegative Rcci curvature to any closed manifolds. In this paper, we generalize the above results to symmetric $(2,0)$-tensors and give the applications including $r$th mean curvatures of closed hypersurfaces in a space form and $k$ scalar curvatures for closed locally conformally flat manifolds.