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A note on rigidity of 3-Sasakian manifolds

Author(s): Henrik Pedersen; Yat Sun Poon
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 127 (1999), 3027-3034.
MSC (1991): Primary 53C25; Secondary 32G05, 53C55
Posted: April 23, 1999
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Abstract: Making use of the relations among 3-Sasakian manifolds, hypercomplex manifolds and quaternionic Kähler orbifolds, we prove that complete 3-Sasakian manifolds are rigid.


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Additional Information:

Henrik Pedersen
Affiliation: Institut for Matematik og Datalogi, Odense Universitet, Campusvej 55, Odense M, DK-5230, Denmark
Email: henrik@imada.ou.dk

Yat Sun Poon
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
Email: ypoon@math.ucr.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-99-04889-3
PII: S 0002-9939(99)04889-3
Keywords: Sasakian, hypercomplex, deformations
Received by editor(s): December 4, 1997
Posted: April 23, 1999
Additional Notes: The first author was partially supported by NATO CRG-950040. The second author was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-9504908.
Communicated by: Peter Li
Copyright of article: Copyright 1999, American Mathematical Society




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