Killing vector fields of constant length on Riemannian manifolds

We study the nontrivial Killing vector fields of constant length and the corresponding flows on complete smooth Riemannian manifolds. Various examples are constructed of the Killing vector fields of constant length generated by the isometric effective almost free but not free actions of S ¹ on the Riemannian manifolds close in some sense to symmetric spaces. The latter manifolds include “almost round” odd-dimensional spheres and unit vector bundles over Riemannian manifolds. We obtain some curvature constraints on the Riemannian manifolds admitting nontrivial Killing fields of constant length.     

Quaternionic Killing Spinors

In [17] we proved a lower bound for the spectrum of the Dirac operator on quaternionic Kähler manifolds. In the present article we study the limiting case, i.e. manifolds where the lower bound is attained as an eigenvalue. We give an equivalent formulation in terms of a quaternionic Killing equation and show that the only symmetric quaternionic Kähler manifolds with smallest possible eigenvalue are the quaternionic projective spaces.     

Killing spinors on K?hler manifolds

In the paper Kählerian Killing spinors are defined and their basic properties are investigated. Each Kähler manifold that admits a Kählerian Killing spinor is Einstein of odd complex dimension. Kählerian Killing spinors are a special kind of Kählerian twistor spinors. Real Kählerian Killing spinors appear for example, on closed Kähler manifolds with the smallest possible first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator. For the complex projective spaces P ^2l–1 and the complex hyperbolic spaces H ^2l–1 withl>1 the dimension of the space of Kählerian Killing spinors is equal to ( ). It is shown that in complex dimension 3 the complex hyperbolic space H ³ is the only simple connected complete spin Kähler manifold admitting an imaginary Kählerian Killing spinor.     

Symmetries of Contact Metric Manifolds

We study the Lie algebra of infinitesimal isometries on compact Sasakian and K-contact manifolds. On a Sasakian manifold which is not a space form or 3-Sasakian, every Killing vector field is an infinitesimal automorphism of the Sasakian structure. For a manifold with K-contact structure, we prove that there exists a Killing vector field of constant length which is not an infinitesimal automorphism of the structure if and only if the manifold is obtained from the Konishi bundle of a compact pseudo-Riemannian quaternion-Kähler manifold after changing the sign of the metric on a maximal negative distribution. We also prove that nonregular Sasakian manifolds are not homogeneous and construct examples with cohomogeneity one. Using these results we obtain in the last section the classification of all homogeneous Sasakian manifolds.     

Regular and quasiregular isometric flows on Riemannian manifolds

We study the nontrivial Killing vector fields of constant length and the corresponding flows on smooth Riemannian manifolds. We describe the properties of the set of all points of finite (infinite) period for general isometric flows on Riemannian manifolds. It is shown that this flow is generated by an effective almost free isometric action of the group S ¹ if there are no points of infinite or zero period. In the last case, the set of periods is at most countable and generates naturally an invariant stratification with closed totally geodesic strata; the union of all regular orbits is an open connected dense subset of full measure.     

The Axiom of \Phi -Holomorphic Planes for Normal Killing Type Manifolds

We study the properties of the -holomorphic sectional curvature of normal Killing type manifolds satisfying the axiom of -holomorphic planes.     

Curvature identities for normal manifolds of killing type

We present two curvature identities and study the corresponding classesR ₁ andR ₂ of normal manifolds of Killing type. Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 351–362, September, 1997. Translated by S. S. Anisov     

Spin Structures on Flat Manifolds with Cyclic Holonomy

We study spin structures on flat Riemannian manifolds. The main result is a necessary and sufficient condition for a flat manifold with cyclic holonomy to have a spin structure.     

Geodesic vector fields and Eikonal equation on a Riemannian manifold

In this paper, we study the impact of geodesic vector fields (vector fields whose trajectories are geodesics) on the geometry of a Riemannian manifold. Since, Killing vector fields of constant lengths on a Riemannian manifold are geodesic vector fields, leads to the question of finding sufficient conditions for a geodesic vector field to be Killing. In this paper, we show that a lower bound on the Ricci curvature of the Riemannian manifold in the direction of geodesic vector field gives a sufficient condition for the geodesic vector field to be Killing. Also, we use a geodesic vector field on a 3-dimensional complete simply connected Riemannian manifold to find sufficient conditions to be isometric to a 3-sphere. We find a characterization of an Einstein manifold using a Killing vector field. Finally, it has been observed that a major source of geodesic vector fields is provided by solutions of Eikonal equations on a Riemannian manifold and we obtain a characterization of the Euclidean space using an Eikonal equation.     

KO-obstructions of non-abelian group action on spin manifolds

In this paper, we give some KO-obstructions of non-Abelian group action on spin manifolds. These are closely related to the existence of metrics of positive scalar curvature on spin manifolds.     

Skew Killing spinors in four dimensions

Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry - This paper is devoted to the classification of 4-dimensional Riemannian spin manifolds carrying skew Killing spinors. A skew Killing spinor $$\psi $$ is a...     

Some conformal and projective scalar invariants of Riemannian manifolds

It is proved that, on any closed oriented Riemannian n-manifold, the vector spaces of conformal Killing, Killing, and closed conformal Killing r-forms, where 1 ≤ r ≤ n ? 1, have finite dimensions t _r , k _r , and p _r , respectively. The numbers t _r are conformal scalar invariants of the manifold, and the numbers k _r and p _r are projective scalar invariants; they are dual in the sense that t _r = t _n?r and k _r = p _n?r . Moreover, an explicit expression for a conformal Killing r-form on a conformally flat Riemannian n-manifold is given.     

KILLING VECTOR FIELDS OF CONSTANT LENGTH ON LOCALLY SYMMETRIC RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS

In this paper nontrivial Killing vector fields of constant length and the corresponding ows on smooth complete Riemannian manifolds are investigated. It is proved that such a ow on symmetric space is free or induced by a free isometric action of the circle S ¹. Examples of unit Killing vector fields generated by almost free but not free actions of S ¹ on locally symmetric Riemannian spaces are found; among them are homogeneous (nonsimply connected) Riemannian manifolds of constant positive sectional curvature and locally Euclidean spaces. Some unsolved questions are formulated. DOI: .     

Imaginary Kählerian Killing spinors I

We describe and to some extent characterize a new family of Kähler spin manifolds admitting non-trivial imaginary Kählerian Killing spinors.     

Aspects of Dirac Operators in Analysis

We give a review of the analysis behind several examples of Dirac-type operators over manifolds arising in Clifford analysis. These include the Atiyah-Singer-Dirac operator acting on sections of a spin bundle over a spin manifold. It also includes several Dirac operators arising over conformally flat spin manifolds including hyperbolic space. Links to classical harmonic analysis are pointed out.

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Structure equations and constraint manifolds on Lorentz plane

Calculating the structure equation of a chain is important to represent the position of the end link on the chain. Furthermore, the structure equation helps to determine the constraint manifold of the chain. The constraint manifold satisfies to make geometric interpretations about the form that is obtained. What is more, the constraint forced on the positions of the end link by the rest of the chain is represented by the manifold. In Lorentz space, the structure equations change according to the causal characters of the first link. In this paper, we attain the structure equations of a planar open chain in terms of the causal character of the first link in this space. Later, the constraint manifolds of the chain by using these equations are given. Some geometric comments about these manifolds are explained.     

Dirac Operators on Hypersurfaces of Manifolds with Negative Scalar Curvature

We give a sharp extrinsic lower bound for the first eigenvaluesof the intrinsic Dirac operator of certain hypersurfaces boundinga compact domain in a spin manifold of negative scalar curvature.Limiting-cases are characterized by the existence, on the domain,of imaginary Killing spinors. Some geometrical applications, as anAlexandrov type theorem, are given.