Almost tangent and cotangent structures in the large
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Abstract:
We examine some global properties of integrable almost tangent and cotangent manifolds. In particular, we extend several results which essentially characterize tangent and cotangent bundles as, respectively, regular almost tangent and cotangent structures.References
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- © Copyright 1991 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 327 (1991), 313-328
- MSC: Primary 53C15; Secondary 53C10
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1991-1012509-X
- MathSciNet review: 1012509