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Scalar curvature of a certain CR-submanifold of complex projective space

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We study an n-dimensional, compact, minimal CR-submanifold of CR-dimension n − 1 and give a sufficient condition for the submanifold to be a tube over a totally geodesic complex subspace.

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Dedicated to Professor U-Hang Ki on his 60th birthday

This work is supported by the research grant of the Catholic University of Taegu-Hyosung in 1996.

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Choe, YW., Okumura, M. Scalar curvature of a certain CR-submanifold of complex projective space. Arch. Math. 68, 340–346 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s000130050065

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