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Author(s): Charles P. Boyer; Krzysztof Galicki
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), 2419-2430.
MSC (2000): Primary 53C25
Posted: January 18, 2001
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Abstract: We show that every K-contact Einstein manifold is Sasakian-Einstein and discuss several corollaries of this result.

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Charles P. Boyer
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131
Email: cboyer@math.unm.edu

Krzysztof Galicki
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131
Email: galicki@math.unm.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-01-05943-3
PII: S 0002-9939(01)05943-3
Received by editor(s): December 16, 1999
Posted: January 18, 2001
Additional Notes: This work was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-9970904.
Communicated by: Christopher Croke
Copyright of article: Copyright 2001, American Mathematical Society

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