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On Rigidity of Grauert Tubes
Given a real-analytic Riemannian manifold M there exists a canonical complex structure on part of its tangent bundle which turns leaves of the Riemannian foliation on TM into holomorphic curves. A Grauert tube over M of radius r, denoted as T rM , is the collection of tangent vectors of M of length less than r equipped with this canonical complex structure. We say the Grauert tube T rM is rigid...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0942-5977,0947-4471
DOI: 10.1515/dmvm-2008-0033