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We study surfaces in a Sasakian manifold R2n++1(−3) whose mean curvature vector fields admit a finite spectral decomposition with respect to certain elliptic linear differential operators.
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Sasahara, T. Spectral decomposition of the mean curvature vector field of surfaces in a Sasakian manifold R2n+1(−3). Results. Math. 43, 168–180 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03322733
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