Fano contact manifolds and nilpotent orbits

Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 566-583

  Beauville, Arnaud ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Contact moment map; Contact structure; Fano manifolds; Nilpotent orbits; Quaternion K hler manifolds

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032410363     PISSN: 00102571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000140050069     Document Type: Article

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