Spin(9)-structures and Connections with Totally Skew-symmetric Torsion
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We study Spin(9)-structures on 16-dimensional Riemannian manifolds and characterize the geometric types admitting a connection with totally skew-symmetric torsion.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002