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Symmetric-like Riemannian manifolds and geodesic symmetries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Jürgen Berndt ,
Friedbert Prüfer  and
Lieven Vanhecke
Jürgen Berndt
Affiliation:
Mathematisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Weyertal 86-90, 50931 Köln, Germany
Friedbert Prüfer
Affiliation:
Fachbereich Mathematik/Informatik, Universität Leipzig, Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig, Germany
Lieven Vanhecke
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 B, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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Abstract

We treat several classes of Riemannian manifolds whose shape operators of geodesic spheres or Jacobi operators share some properties with the ones on symmetric spaces.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 125 , Issue 2 , 1995 , pp. 265 - 282
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1995

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