THE CROSS-RATIO MANIFOLD: A MODEL OF CENTRO-AFFINE GEOMETRY

Year 2011, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 32 - 62, 30.10.2011

Roland Hildebrand

Abstract

Keywords

para-Kähler manifolds, Lagrangian immersions, Codazzi structures

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