A curvature condition for a twisted product¶to be a warped product

It is shown that a mixed Ricci-flat twisted product semi-Riemannian manifold can be expressed as a warped product semi-Riemannian manifold. As a consequence, any Einstein twisted product semi-Riemannian manifold is in fact, a warped product semi-Riemannian manifold. Received: 8 March 2001 / Revised version: 25 July 2001     

On doubly warped product Finsler manifolds

In this paper, we introduce horizontal and vertical warped product Finsler manifolds. We prove that every C-reducible or proper Berwaldian doubly warped product Finsler manifold is Riemannian. Then, we find the relation between Riemannian curvatures of doubly warped product Finsler manifold and its components, and consider the cases that this manifold is flat or has scalar flag curvature. We define the doubly warped Sasaki-Matsumoto metric for warped product manifolds and find a condition under which the horizontal and vertical tangent bundles are totally geodesic. We obtain some conditions under which a foliated manifold reduces to a Reinhart manifold. Finally, we study an almost complex structure on the tangent bundle of a doubly warped product Finsler manifold.     

ON THE INVARIANT SUBMANIFOLDS OF RIEMANNIAN PRODUCT MANIFOLD

In this paper, the vertical and horizontal distributions of an invariant submanifold of a Riemannian product manifold are discussed. An invariant real space form in a Riemannian product manifold is researched. Finally, necessary and sufficient conditions are given on an invariant submanifold of a Riemannian product manifold to be a locally symmetric and real space form.     

Riemannian almost product and para-Hermitian cotangent bundles of general natural lift type

We characterize the almost product and locally product structures of general natural lift type on the cotangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold. We find the conditions under which the cotangent bundle endowed with the constructed almost product (locally product) structure and with a pseudo-Riemannian metric obtained as a general natural lift of the metric from the base manifold, is a Riemannian almost product (locally product) or an (almost) para-Hermitian manifold. Finally, by studying the closedness of the 2-form associated to the obtained (almost) para-Hermitian structure, we characterize the general natural (almost) para-Kählerian structures on the cotangent bundle.     

Canonical connection on a class of Reimannian almost product manifolds

The canonical connection on a Reimannian almost product manifold is an analogue to the Hermitian connection on an almost Hermitian manifold. In this paper we consider the canonical connection on a class of Reimannian almost product manifolds with non-integrable almost product structure.     

Complex Product Structures and Affine Foliations

A complex product structure on a manifold is an appropriate combination of a complex structure and a product structure. The existence of such a structure determines many interesting properties of the underlying manifold, notably that the manifold admits a pair of complementary foliations whose leaves carry affine structures. This is due to the existence of a unique torsion-free connection which preserves both the complex and the product structure; this connection is not necessarily flat. We study the existence of complex product structures on tangent bundles of smooth manifolds, and we investigate the structure of manifolds admitting a complex product structure and a compatible hypersymplectic metric, showing that the foliations mentioned earlier are either symplectic or Lagrangian, depending on the symplectic form under consideration.     

SLANT SUBMANIFOLDS OF A RIEMANNIAN PRODUCT MANIFOLD

In this article, the geometry of the slant submanifolds of a Riemannian product manifold is studied. Some necessary and sufficient conditions on slant, bi-slant and semi-slant submanifolds are given. We research fundamental properties of the distributions which are involved in definitions of semi- and bi-slant submanifolds in a Riemannian product manifold.     

On Lorentz dynamics: From group actions to warped products via homogeneous spaces

We show a geometric rigidity of isometric actions of non-compact (semisimple) Lie groups on Lorentz manifolds. Namely, we show that the manifold has a warped product structure of a Lorentz manifold with constant curvature by a Riemannian manifold.

     

复Finsler流形上的Hodge-Laplace算子

本文定义了强拟凸复Finsler流形上的Hodge-Laplace算子,并给出其水平部分的局部坐标表示．     

On the Existence of Proper Nearly Kenmotsu Manifolds

We prove that a nearly Kenmotsu manifold is locally isometric to the warped product of a real line and a nearly Kähler manifold. As consequence, a normal nearly Kenmotsu manifold is Kenmotsu. Furthermore, we show that there do not exist nearly Kenmotsu hypersurfaces of nearly Kähler manifolds.

     

Products of cell-like decompositions

This paper represents a survey concerning cell-like decompositions of manifolds. Primarily it summarizes the status of results and problems describing when the product of E¹ with such a decomposition space is again a manifold, and more generally it discusses conditions under which the product of two such decomposition spaces is also a manifold.     

On the asphericity of a symplectic

C. H. Taubes asked whether a closed (i.e. compact and without boundary) connected oriented three-dimensional manifold whose product with a circle admits a symplectic structure must fiber over a circle. An affirmative answer to Taubes' question would imply that any such manifold either is diffeomorphic to the product of a two-sphere with a circle or is irreducible and aspherical. In this paper, we prove that this implication holds up to connect sum with a manifold which admits no proper covering spaces with finite index. It is pointed out that Thurston's geometrization conjecture and known results in the theory of three-dimensional manifolds imply that such a manifold is a three-dimensional sphere. Hence, modulo the present conjectural picture of three-dimensional manifolds, we have shown that the stated consequence of an affirmative answer to Taubes' question holds.

     

On the second cohomology group of a pinched Riemannian manifold

Summary Let M be a compact orientable Riemannian manifold of dimension even. We assume that the manifold can carry a metric, which is positively k-pinked. In the present paper some properties of the second cohomology group of such a manifold are obtained, when the number k is greater than a number which depends on the dimension of the manifold. These properties have some applications on the topological product of some special manifolds. This research was supported by S. F. B. grant. Entrata in Redazione il 6 dicembre 1969.     

强Khler-Finsler流形上(p,q)形式的中值Laplace算子(英文)

本文给出了强Khler-Finsler流形上中值Laplace算子的一些性质,如自伴性质,散度形式等。与Khler流形上利用逆变基本张量及其在Finsler流形上的变形作为密度函数定义流形上的逐点内积及整体内积不同,作者利用强Khler-Finsler流形上的逆变密切Khler度量作为密度函数定义了流形上的逐点内积和整体内积,并定义了强Khler-Finsler流形上的Hodge-Laplace算子,它可看作函数情形中值Laplace算子的推广。     

Spaces of geodesics: products, coverings, connectedness

We continue our study of the space of geodesics of a manifold with linear connection. We obtain sufficient conditions for a product to have a space of geodesics which is a manifold. We investigate the relationship of the space of geodesics of a covering manifold to that of the base space. We obtain sufficient conditions for a space to be geodesically connected in terms of the topology of its space of geodesics.     

A splitting theorem for manifolds of almost nonnegative Ricci curvature

Cheeger and Gromoll proved that a closed Riemannian manifold of nonnegative Ricci curvature is, up to a finite cover, diffeomorphic to a direct product of a simply connected manifold and a torus. In this paper, we extend this theorem to manifolds of almost nonnegative Ricci curvature.     

Symmetry in the geometry of metric contact pairs

We prove that the universal covering of a complete locally symmetric normal metric contact pair manifold with decomposable ? is a Calabi‐Eckmann manifold or the Riemannian product of a sphere and . We show that a complete, simply connected, normal metric contact pair manifold with decomposable ?, such that the foliation induced by the vertical subbundle is regular and reflections in the integral submanifolds of the vertical subbundle are isometries, is the product of globally ?‐symmetric spaces or the product of a globally ?‐symmetric space and . Moreover in the first case the manifold fibers over a locally symmetric space endowed with a symplectic pair.     

Geometrically Formal Homogeneous Metrics of Positive Curvature

A Riemannian manifold is called geometrically formal if the wedge product of harmonic forms is again harmonic, which implies in the compact case that the manifold is topologically formal in the sense of rational homotopy theory. A manifold admitting a Riemannian metric of positive sectional curvature is conjectured to be topologically formal. Nonetheless, we show that among the homogeneous Riemannian metrics of positive sectional curvature a geometrically formal metric is either symmetric, or a metric on a rational homology sphere.     

A splitting result for compact symplectic manifolds

We consider compact symplectic manifolds acted on effectively by a compact connected Lie group K in a Hamiltonian fashion. We prove that the squared moment map ∥μ∥² is constant if and only if K is semisimple and the manifold is K-equivariantly symplectomorphic to a product of a flag manifold and a compact symplectic manifold which is acted on trivially by K. In the almost-Kähler setting the symplectomorphism turns out to be an isometry.     

Relative nullity distributions, an affine immersion from an almost product manifold and a para-pluriharmonic isometric immersion

We give a characterization for an affine immersion from an almost product manifold the almost product structure of which is adjoint or skew-adjoint with respect to its affine fundamental form by the relative nullity distribution.