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David E. Blair
Riemannian Geometry of Contact and Symplectic Manifolds

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Symplectic Manifolds.- Principal S 1-bundles.- Contact Manifolds.- Associated Metrics.- Integral Submanifolds and Contact Transformations.- Sasakian and Cosymplectic Manifolds.- Curvature of Contact Metric Manifolds.- Submanifolds of Kähler and Sasakian Manifolds.- Tangent Bundles and Tangent Sphere Bundles.- Curvature Functionals on Spaces of Associated Metrics.- Negative ?–sectional Curvature.- Complex Contact Manifolds.- Additional Topics in Complex Geometry.- 3-Sasakian Manifolds.- Erratum.

Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 343 ● ISBN 9780817649593 ● File size 2.9 MB ● Publisher Birkhäuser Boston ● City MA ● Country US ● Published 2010 ● Edition 2 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2146833 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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