ON W4-BIRECURRENT MANIFOLDS

• Kim, Jaeman
• Accepted : 2014.09.22
• Published : 2014.12.25
• 76 3

Abstract

In the present paper, we introduce a type of Riemannian manifolds (namely, $W_4$-birecurrent manifold) and study the several properties of such a manifold on which some geometric conditions are imposed.

Keywords

$W_4$-birecurrent manifold;birecurrent manifold;associated tensor;scalar curvature;Einstein;concurrent vector field;parallel vector field

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Cited by

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Acknowledgement

Supported by : Kangwon National University