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On the Existence of a New Class of Contact Metric Manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Themis Koufogiorgos  and
Charalambos Tsichlias
Themis Koufogiorgos
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Ioannina, Ioannina 45110, Greece, email: tkoufog@cc.uoi.gr
Charalambos Tsichlias
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Ioannina, Ioannina 45110, Greece, email: ctsichli@cc.uoi.gr
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Abstract

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A new class of 3-dimensional contact metric manifolds is found. Moreover it is proved that there are no such manifolds in dimensions greater than 3.

Keywords

53C2553C15contact metric manifoldsgeneralized (κ, μ)-contact metric manifolds
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 43 , Issue 4 , 01 December 2000 , pp. 440 - 447
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2000

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