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We review some results on the Riemannian and almost Hermitian geometry of twistor spaces of oriented Riemannian \(4\)-manifolds with emphasis on their curvature properties.
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The authors would like to thank the editors of this volume for the invitation to submit a paper in honour of Professor Armen Sergeev, our dear friend and colleague.
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Dedicated to Professor Armen Sergeev on the occasion of his 70th birthday
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Davidov, J., Mushkarov, O. Curvature Properties of Twistor Spaces. Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. 311, 78–97 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S008154382006005X
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