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This essay surveys a number of results and open questions concerning the curvature of Riemannian metrics associated to a contact form.
This essay is an expanded version of the author’s lecture given at the conference “Curvature in Geometry” in honor of Professor Lieven Vanhecke in Lecce, Italy, 11–14 June 2003.
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Blair, D.E. (2005). Curvature of Contact Metric Manifolds. In: Kowalski, O., Musso, E., Perrone, D. (eds) Complex, Contact and Symmetric Manifolds. Progress in Mathematics, vol 234. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-8176-4424-5_1
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