On conformal transformations of kropina metric

M. Hashiguchi [3] has studied the conformal theory of Finsler spaces. The theory of Kropina metric was investigated by L. Berwald [1] and V. K. Kropina [4]. The purpose of the present paper is to establish the conformal theory of Kropina metric. In this paper the transformation formulae for the difference tensor D _ik ⁱ (x, ) and Cartan's connection coefficients _k ^*i (x, ) have been obtained.     

A classification of almost contact metric manifolds

Summary It is obtained a complete classification for almost contact metric manifolds through the study of the covariant derivative of the fundamental 2- form on those manifolds.This work was supported by the « Consejería de Educación del Gobierno de Canarias ».     

Harmonicity on some almost contact metric manifolds

In this paper we shall study some classes of harmonic maps on Trans-Sasakian manifolds.     

Riemannian submersions from almost contact metric manifolds

In this paper we obtain the structure equation of a contact-complex Riemannian submersion and give some applications of this equation in the study of almost cosymplectic manifolds with Kähler fibres.     

Geometric properties of almost contact metric 3-submersions

Summary In this paper, we discuss some geometric properties of three types of Riemannian submersions whose total space is an almost contact metric manifold with 3-structure. The study is focused on the transference of structures.     

On infinitesimal automorphisms of almost contact metric lattices

In this paper, three-dimensional maximum mobile almost contact manifolds are considered. In a special frame, we have obtained the form of structural objects for the case of constant φ-analytic curvature H = −3 of the first and also second and third classes of the Tanno theorem. The basis vector field of the Lie algebra of infinitesimal automorphisms for each of the considered structures and their commutators are found.     

Some classes of almost contact metric manifolds and contact Riemannian submersions

Locally conformal almost quasi-Sasakian manifolds are related to the Chinea--Gonzales classification of almost contact metric manifolds. It follows that these manifolds set up a wide class of almost contact metric manifolds containing several interesting subclasses. Contact Riemannian submersions whose total space belongs to each of the considered classes are then investigated. The explicit expression of the integrability tensor and of the mean curvature vector field of each fibre are given. This allows us to state the integrability of the horizontal distribution and/or the minimality of the fibres in particular cases. The classes of the base space and of the fibres are also determined, so extending several well-known results.     

Harmonicity on maps between almost contact metric manifolds

We study (φ,φ′)-holomorphic maps between almost contact metric manifolds, in particular horizontally conformal (φ,φ′)-holomorphic submersions, and obtain some criteria for the harmonicity of such maps.     

On almost contact metric hypersurface of a Kahler manifold

We have studied the normality of an almost contact metric hypersurface of a Kahler manifold. Quasi-umbilical and umbilical properties have also been studied.     

Contactly geodesic transformations of almost-contact metric structures

We introduce the notion of contactly geodesic transformation of the metric of an almost-contact metric structure as a contact analog of holomorphically geodesic transformations of the metric of an almost-Hermitian structure. A series of invariants of such transformations is obtained. We prove that such transformations preserve the normality property of an almost-contact metric structure. We prove that cosymplectic and Sasakian manifolds, as well as Kenmotsu manifolds, do not admit nontrivial contactly geodesic transformations of the metric, which is a contact analog of the well-known result for Kählerian manifolds due to Westlake and Yano.     

Invariants of contact structures and transversally oriented foliations

We exhibit new invariants of the contact structure E(), the contact flow F and the transverse symplectic geometry of a contact manifold (M, ). The invariant of contact structures generalizes to transversally oriented foliations. We focus on the particular cases of orientations of smooth manifolds and transverse orientations of foliations. We define the transverse Calabi invariants and determine their kernels.Supported in part by NSF grants DMS 90-01861 and DMS 94-03196.     

Holomorphically planar conformal vector fields on contact metric manifolds

We study holomorphically planar conformal vector fields (HPCV) on contact metric manifolds under some curvature conditions. In particular, we have studied HPCV fields on (i) contact metric manifolds with pointwise constant ξ-sectional curvature (under this condition M is either K-contact or V is homothetic), (ii) Einstein contact metric manifolds (in this case M becomes K contact), (iii) contact metric manifolds with parallel Ricci tensor (under this condition M is either K-contact Einstein or is locally isometric to E ⁿ⁺¹×S ⁿ (4)).     

A variational characterization of contact metric structures

Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry - On a manifold with a given nowhere vanishing vector field, we examine the squared $$L^2$$ -norm of the integrability tensor of the orthogonal complement of...