On the curvature of contact metric manifolds

Journal of Geometry - Tập 53 - Trang 179-190 - 1995
Ramesh Sharma1
1Department of Mathematics, University of New Haven, West Haven, USA

Tóm tắt

Some results on Ricci-symmetric contact metric manifolds are obtained. Second order parallel tensors and vector fields keeping curvature tensor invariant are characterized on a class of contact manifolds. Conformally flat contact manifolds are studied assuming certain curvature conditions. Finally some results onk-nullity distribution of contact manifolds are obtained.

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