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Curvature of Contact Metric Manifolds

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Complex, Contact and Symmetric Manifolds

Part of the book series: Progress in Mathematics ((PM,volume 234))

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This essay surveys a number of results and open questions concerning the curvature of Riemannian metrics associated to a contact form.

This essay is an expanded version of the author’s lecture given at the conference “Curvature in Geometry” in honor of Professor Lieven Vanhecke in Lecce, Italy, 11–14 June 2003.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824

    David E. Blair

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, 186 75, Praha, Czech Republic

    Oldřich Kowalski

  2. Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Università di L’Aquila, 67100, L’Aquila, Italy

    Emilio Musso

  3. Dipartimento di Matematica “E. De Giorgi”, Università degli Studi di Lecce, 73100, Lecce, Italy

    Domenico Perrone

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Blair, D.E. (2005). Curvature of Contact Metric Manifolds. In: Kowalski, O., Musso, E., Perrone, D. (eds) Complex, Contact and Symmetric Manifolds. Progress in Mathematics, vol 234. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-8176-4424-5_1

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