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Curvature of contact Riemannian three-manifolds with critical metrics

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Goldberg, S.I., Perrone, D., Toth, G. (1989). Curvature of contact Riemannian three-manifolds with critical metrics. In: Carreras, F.J., Gil-Medrano, O., Naveira, A.M. (eds) Differential Geometry. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1410. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0086424

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