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On the space of Riemannian metrics on surfaces and contact manifolds

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Blair, D.E. (1980). On the space of Riemannian metrics on surfaces and contact manifolds. In: Artzy, R., Vaisman, I. (eds) Geometry and Differential Geometry. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 792. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0088678

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