A class of nonsymmetric harmonic Riemannian spaces
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Abstract:
Certain solvable extensions of H-type groups provide noncompact counterexamples to a conjecture of Lichnerowicz, which asserted that "harmonic" Riemannian spaces must be rank 1 symmetric spaces.References
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- © Copyright 1992 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 139-142
- MSC (2000): Primary 53C35
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1992-00293-8
- MathSciNet review: 1142682