Critical‎ ‎Metrics‎ ‎Related‎ ‎to Quadratic Curvature Functionals over Generalized Symmetric Spaces of Dimension Four

Document Type : Original Scientific Paper

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‎Department of Mathematics, ‎Payame Noor University (PNU), ‎P.O‎. ‎Box 19395-4697,Tehran‎, ‎Iran

Abstract

‎Our examination of quadratic curvature functionals in Generalized Symmetric Spaces has resulted in the comprehensive classification of critical metric sets within diverse categories of these spaces‎.

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