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High-order Levi curvatures and classification results

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In this paper we write some differential formulas involving the high-order Levi curvatures of a real hypersurface in a complex space form. As application we get a classification result under suitable assumptions.

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    Vittorio Martino & Giulio Tralli

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Martino, V., Tralli, G. High-order Levi curvatures and classification results. Ann Glob Anal Geom 46, 351–359 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10455-014-9427-z

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