g-Natural Metrics of Constant Sectional Curvature on Tangent Bundles

Year 2009, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 74 - 94, 30.04.2009

S. Degla J.p. Ezin L. Todjihounde

Abstract

Keywords

F-tensor field, g-natural metrics

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