Showing papers by "David E. Blair published in 1984"
TL;DR: In this paper, the Ricci curvature in the direction of the characteristic vector field is used to define a function on the set of all Riemannian metrics associated to a contact form on a compact manifold.
Abstract: Defining a function on the set of all Riemannian metrics associated to a contact form on a compact manifold by taking the integral of the Ricci curvature in the direction of the characteristic vector field, it is shown that on a compact regular contact manifold the only critical points of this function are the metrics for which the characteristic vector field generates a group of isometrics.
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