Curvature Properties of Twistor Spaces

Johann Davidov ; Oleg Mushkarov

Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V.A. Steklova, Analysis and mathematical physics, Tome 311 (2020), pp. 84-105.

Résumé

We review some results on the Riemannian and almost Hermitian geometry of twistor spaces of oriented Riemannian $4$-manifolds with emphasis on their curvature properties.

Détail

Keywords: twistor spaces, almost Hermitian structures, Riemannian and Hermitian curvatures of twistor spaces.

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