ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

Quaternionic-Kähler geometry and almost Kähler A-manifolds

Authors 1

Affiliations

  1. Institute of Mathematics, Cracow University of Technology, Warszawska 24, 31-155 Kraków, Poland

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to give an easy explicit description of 3-K-contact structures on certain SO(3)-principal fibre bundles over quaternionic-Kähler manifolds.

Keywords

quaternionic-Kähler manifold, contact structure, principal fibre bundle

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Pages:
111-124
Main language of publication
English
Received
1999-10-01
Accepted
2000-02-15
Published
2000
Exact and natural sciences