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The aim of this paper is to study the geometric properties of the thirty-six classes of Riemannian almost-product manifolds that appear considering the algebraic properties of the covariant derivative of the tensor field defining the structure with respect to the Levi-Civita connexion.
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Gil-Medrano, O. Geometric properties of some classes of Riemannian almost-product manifolds. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo 32, 315–329 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02848536
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