Kentaro Yano (mathematician)

Kentaro Yano (1 March 1912 Tokyo, Japan – 1993) was a mathematician working on differential geometry who introduced the Bochner–Yano theorem.

He also published a classical book about geometric objects (i.e., sections of natural fiber bundles) and Lie derivatives of these objects.

Publications

Les espaces à connexion projective et la géométrie projective des paths, Iasi, 1938
Geometry of Structural Forms (Japanese), 1947
Groups of Transformations in Generalized Spaces, Tokyo, Akademeia Press, 1949
with Salomon Bochner: Curvature and Betti Numbers, Princeton University Press, Annals of Mathematical Studies, 1953^[1]
The Theory of Lie Derivatives and its Applications. North-Holland. 1957. ISBN 978-0-7204-2104-0.
Differential geometry on complex and almost complex spaces, Macmillan, New York 1965
Integral formulas in Riemannian Geometry, Marcel Dekker, New York 1970
with Shigeru Ishihara: Tangent and cotangent bundles: differential geometry, New York, M. Dekker 1973
with Masahiro Kon: Anti-invariant submanifolds, Marcel Dekker, New York 1976^[2]
Morio Obata (ed.): Selected papers of Kentaro Yano, North Holland 1982
with Masahiro Kon: CR Submanifolds of Kählerian and Sasakian Manifolds, Birkhäuser 1983^[3]
with Masahiro Kon: Structures on Manifolds, World Scientific 1984

^ Boothby, William B. (1954). "Review: Curvature and Betti numbers, by K. Yano and S. Bochner". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 60 (4): 404–405.
^ Reilly, Robert C. (1979). "Review: Anti-invariant subspaces, by K. Yano and M. Kon". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (4): 627–632.
^ Chen, Bang-Yen (1983). "Review: CR submanifolds of Kaehlerian and Sasakian manifolds, by K. Yano and M. Kon". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 9 (3): 361–364.