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Parabolic Geodesics in Sasakian 3-Manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Jong Taek Cho
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 500–757, Korea e-mail: jtcho@chonnam.ac.kr
Jun-ichi Inoguchi
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan e-mail: inoguchi@sci.kj.yamagata-u.ac.jp
Ji-Eun Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Kyungpook National University, Taegu 702-701, Korea e-mail: jieunlee12@gmail.com
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Abstract

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We give explicit parametrizations for all parabolic geodesics in 3-dimensional Sasakian space forms.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2011

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