Curvature invariants, differential operators and local homogeneity

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 348, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 4643-4652

  Prüfer, Friedbert ^a   Tricerri, Franco ^a   Vanhecke, Lieven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Commutativity; Curvature invariants; Invariant differential operators; Laplacian; Locally homogeneous spaces; Spaces with volume preserving geodesic symmetries

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444451409     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9947-96-01686-8     Document Type: Article

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