On Riemannian geometry of tangent sphere bundles with arbitrary constant radius
Kowalski, Oldřich ; Sekizawa, Masami
Archivum Mathematicum, Tome 044 (2008), p. 391-401 / Harvested from Czech Digital Mathematics Library
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We shall survey our work on Riemannian geometry of tangent sphere bundles with arbitrary constant radius done since the year 2000.

Publié le : 2008-01-01
Classification:  53C07,  53C25,  53C30 
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Kowalski, Oldřich; Sekizawa, Masami. On Riemannian geometry of tangent sphere bundles with arbitrary constant radius. Archivum Mathematicum, Tome 044 (2008) pp. 391-401. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/127125/

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