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Manifolds with an $SU(2)$-action on the tangent bundle

Author(s): Roger Bielawski
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 358 (2006), 3997-4019.
MSC (2000): Primary 53C26, 53C28
Posted: August 1, 2005
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Abstract: We study manifolds arising as spaces of sections of complex manifolds fibering over ${\mathbb C}P^1$ with the normal bundle of each section isomorphic to $\mathcal{O}(k)\otimes {\mathbb C}^n$.

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Additional Information:

Roger Bielawski
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QW, Scotland
Email: R.Bielawski@maths.gla.ac.uk

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-05-03782-7
PII: S 0002-9947(05)03782-7
Received by editor(s): September 29, 2003
Received by editor(s) in revised form: June 16, 2004
Posted: August 1, 2005
Copyright of article: Copyright 2005, American Mathematical Society
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