ADAPTED METRICS AND WEBSTER CURVATURE ON THREE CLASSES OF 3-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRIES

Year 2014, Volume: 7 Issue: 2, 37 - 46, 30.10.2014

Mircea Crasmareanu

https://doi.org/10.36890/iejg.593981

Cited By: 3

Abstract

Keywords

Webster curvature, unimodular Lie group, Milnor frame, Bianchi-Cartan-Vranceanu metric, warped metric

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