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Locally symmetric and ricci-symmetric contact metric manifolds

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We have characterized locally symmetric and Ricci-symmetric contact metric manifolds of dimension greater than 3, by assuming certain conditions on the curvature and Ricci curvature along the characteristic vector field of the contact structure.

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  1. R. Sharma & T. Koufogiorgos

    Present address: Department of Mathematics, University of Ioannina, 45 110, Ioannina, Greece

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of New Haven, 06 516, West Haven, CT, USA

    R. Sharma

  2. Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, 48 824, East Lansing, MI, USA

    T. Koufogiorgos

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Sharma, R., Koufogiorgos, T. Locally symmetric and ricci-symmetric contact metric manifolds. Ann Glob Anal Geom 9, 177–182 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00776855

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