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Geometry of geodesic tubes on Sasakian manifolds

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New Developments in Differential Geometry

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We give a brief survey about some aspects of the geometry of tubes about ϕ-geodesics on Sasakian manifolds. Considering the shape operator and the Ricci operator of these tubes, we characterize Sasakian space forms and locally ϕ -symmetric spaces.

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 16, p.b. 550, 11000, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

    Mirjana Djorić

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  1. Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary

    L. Tamássy

  2. Department of Geometry, Lóránd Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary

    J. Szenthe

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Djorić, M. (1996). Geometry of geodesic tubes on Sasakian manifolds. In: Tamássy, L., Szenthe, J. (eds) New Developments in Differential Geometry. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 350. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0149-0_7

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