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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
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Ioannina, Ioannina 45110, Greece, email: [email protected]
Charalambos Tsichlias
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Ioannina, Ioannina 45110, Greece, email: [email protected]
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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.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2000

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