A Variational Characterization of Contact Metric Manifolds With Vanishing Torsion

DOI10.4153/CMB-1992-060-xzbMath0729.53040OpenAlexW2320526605WikidataQ125604929 ScholiaQ125604929MaRDI QIDQ3353742

Domenico Perrone, David E. Blair

Publication date: 1992

Published in: Canadian Mathematical Bulletin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4153/cmb-1992-060-x

zbMATH Keywords

integral functionalscontact manifoldWebster scalar curvaturecritical point conditionK-contact condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

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