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2012 A note on the conjecture of Blair in contact Riemannian geometry
Vladimir Krouglov
Tohoku Math. J. (2) 64(4): 561-567 (2012). DOI: 10.2748/tmj/1356038978

Abstract

The conjecture of Blair says that there are no nonflat Riemannian metrics of nonpositive curvature associated with a contact structure. We prove this conjecture for a certain class of contact structures on closed 3-dimensional manifolds and construct a local counterexample.

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Vladimir Krouglov. "A note on the conjecture of Blair in contact Riemannian geometry." Tohoku Math. J. (2) 64 (4) 561 - 567, 2012. https://doi.org/10.2748/tmj/1356038978

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Published: 2012
First available in Project Euclid: 20 December 2012

zbMATH: 1259.53074
MathSciNet: MR3008238
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2748/tmj/1356038978

Subjects:
Primary: 53D10
Secondary: 53C25

Keywords: associated metrics , contact metric manifolds

Rights: Copyright © 2012 Tohoku University

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