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When is the tangent sphere bundle conformally flat? (English)
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11 July 1995
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As is already known, the tangent sphere bundle \(T_ 1 M\) of a Riemannian manifold \(M\) admits the so-called standard contact metric structure. \textit{D. E. Blair} [Geometry and topology, World Scientific, Singapore, 15-30 (1989)] has proven that this structure is locally symmetric iff the base manifold \(M\) is flat or of dimension 2 and of constant curvature \(+1\). In the present paper, it is shown that the structure is conformally flat iff \(M\) is a surface of constant Gauss curvature 0 or \(+1\). The authors have also stated an additional result on conformally flat contact metric manifolds for which the Ricci operator commutes with the almost contact metric operator.
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contact metric manifold
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tangent sphere bundle
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conformally flat metric
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