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Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 450–462, September, 1985.
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Solov'ev, A.F. Curvature of a hyperdistribution and contact metric manifolds. Mathematical Notes of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 38, 756–762 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01163714
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