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http://dx.doi.org/10.5831/HMJ.2020.42.4.811

UNIT TANGENT SPHERE BUNDLES OF LOCALLY SYMMETRIC SPACES  

Cho, Jong Taek (Department of Mathematics, Chonnam National University)
Chun, Sun Hyang (Department of Mathematics, Chosun University)
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Honam Mathematical Journal / v.42, no.4, 2020 , pp. 811-819 More about this Journal
Abstract
We give characterizations of locally symmetric spaces M via the structural operator $h={\frac{1}{2}{\mathcal{L}}_{\xi}{\phi}}$ or the characteristic Jacobi operator ℓ = R(·, ξ)ξ on the unit tangent sphere bundles T1M.
Keywords
unit tangent sphere bundle; locally symmetric space; contact metric structure;
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