On the non-existence of flat contact metric structures

DOI10.2748/TMJ/1178240777zbMATH Open0364.53013OpenAlexW1982274422MaRDI QIDQ1240910FDOQ1240910

Authors: David E. Blair 

Publication date: 1976

Published in: Tôhoku Mathematical Journal. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2748/tmj/1178240777

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15)

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• On contact structures of tangent sphere bundles

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• Contact semi-Riemannian structures in CR geometry: some aspects
• Riemannian geometry on contact Lie groups
• Nullity conditions in paracontact geometry
• Two classes of conformally flat contact metric 3-manifolds
• A dimensional restriction for a class of contact manifolds
• On the curvature of metric contact pairs
• Ricci curvatures of contact Riemannian manifolds
• Complex, symplectic, and contact structures on low-dimensional Lie groups
• Einstein-Weyl structure and contact geometry
• \((\kappa ,\mu ,\upsilon =const.)\)-contact metric manifolds with \(\xi (I_M)=0\)
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• \(K\)-contact and \((k,\mu)\)-contact metric as a generalized \(\eta\)-Ricci soliton
• Two remarks on contact metric structures
• On the existence of \(\eta\)-Einstein contact metric structures
• A class of conformally flat contact metric 3-manifolds
• Nonflatness of certain contact and CR manifolds
• A survey of Riemannian contact geometry
• CONTACT METRIC (κ,μ)-SPACES AS BI-LEGENDRIAN MANIFOLDS
• Rigidity of gradient generalized \(\eta\)-Ricci solitons
• Levi-parallel contact Riemannian manifolds
• On the non-regularity of tangent sphere bundles
• Almost contact curves in normal almost contact 3-manifolds
• Non existence of homogeneous contact metric manifolds of non positive curvature
• \(\mathcal D\)-homothetic warping and applications to geometric structures and cosmology
• A note on the conjecture of Blair in contact Riemannian geometry
• On contact metric manifolds

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