Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata

December 1980, Volume 123, Issue 1, pp 35–58 | Cite as

The sixteen classes of almost Hermitian manifolds and their linear invariants

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• Alfred Gray
• Luis M. Hervella

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Received: 24 July 1978

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Summary

It is shown that in a natural way there are precisely sixteen classes of almost Hermitian manifolds.

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Hermitian Manifold Linear Invariant 

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Authors and Affiliations

• Alfred Gray
  • 1
• Luis M. Hervella
  • 2

1. 1.College ParkUSA
2. 2.Santiago de CompostelaSpain