Nonsymmetric Osserman indefinite Kähler manifolds

Bonome, A.; Castro, R.; García-Río, E.; Hervella, L.; Vázquez-Lorenzo, R.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04659-0

Nonsymmetric Osserman indefinite Kähler manifolds
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Abstract:

The authors prove the existence of Osserman manifolds with indefinite Kähler metric of nonnegative or nonpositive holomorphic sectional curvature which are not locally symmetric.

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