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A REMARK ON H-CONTACT UNIT TANGENT SPHERE BUNDLES

  • Received : 2009.10.23
  • Published : 2011.03.01
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Abstract

We shall give some curvature conditions for the unit tangent sphere bundle of an n($\geq$ 4)-dimensional Riemannian manifold to be H-contact. Furthermore, we provide an example illustrating Main Theorem.

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