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Conformality of a differential with respect to Cheeger-Gromoll type metrics. (English) Zbl 1239.53050

Summary: We investigate conformality of the differential of a mapping between Riemannian manifolds whose tangent bundles are equipped with a generalized metric of Cheeger-Gromoll type.

MSC:

53C20 Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching
53A30 Conformal differential geometry (MSC2010)
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