A characterization of Riemannian flows
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Abstract:
We prove that a flow on a closed manifold is Riemannian if and only if it is locally generated by Killing vector fields for a Riemannian metric.References
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Additional Information
- Philippe Tondeur
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 273 Altgeld Hall, MC-382, 1409 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801
- Received by editor(s): June 19, 1996
- Communicated by: Christopher Croke
- © Copyright 1997 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 3403-3405
- MSC (1991): Primary 53C12, 57R30
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-97-04036-7
- MathSciNet review: 1415373