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We investigate conformality of the differential of a mapping between Riemannian manifolds if the tangent bundles are equipped with a generalized metric of Cheeger-Gromoll type.
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Kozłowski, W., Niedziałomski, K. Conformality of a differential with respect to Cheeger-Gromoll type metrics. Geom Dedicata 157, 227–237 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-011-9607-y
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