On semi-parallel lightlike hypersurfaces of indefinite Kenmotsu manifolds

We study semi-parallel lightlike hypersurfaces of an indefinite Kenmotsu manifold, tangent to the structure vector field. Some Theorems on parallel and semi-parallel vector field, geodesibility of lightlike hypersurfaces are obtained. The geometrical configuration of such lightlike hypersurfaces is established. We prove that, in totally contact umbilical lightlike hypersurfaces of an indefinite Kenmotsu manifold which has constant ${\overline{\phi}}$ -holomorphic sectional curvature c, tangent to the structure vector field and such that its distribution is parallel, the parallelism and semi-parallelism notions are equivalent.     

Lightlike Hypersurfaces in Indefinite Trans-Sasakian Manifolds

This paper deals with lightlike hypersurfaces of indefinite trans-Sasakian manifolds of type (α, β), tangent to the structure vector field. Characterization Theorems on parallel vector fields, integrable distributions, minimal distributions, Ricci-semi symmetric, geodesibility of lightlike hypersurfaces are obtained. The geometric configuration of lightlike hypersurfaces is established. We prove, under some conditions, that there are no parallel and totally contact umbilical lightlike hypersurfaces of trans-Sasakian space forms, tangent to the structure vector field. We show that there exists a totally umbilical distribution in an Einstein parallel lightlike hypersurface which does not contain the structure vector field. We characterize the normal bundle along any totally contact umbilical leaf of an integrable screen distribution. We finally prove that the geometry of any leaf of an integrable distribution is closely related to the geometry of a normal bundle and its image under ${\overline{\phi}}$ .     

On lightlike geometry in indefinite Kenmotsu manifolds

We investigate some geometric aspects of lightlike hypersurfaces of indefinite Kenmotsu manifolds, tangent to the structure vector field, by paying attention to the geometry of leaves of integrable distributions. Theorems on parallel vector fields, Killing distribution, geodesibility of their leaves are obtained. The geometric configuration of such lightlike hypersurfaces and leaves of its screen integrable distributions are established. We show that no totally contact umbilical leaf of a screen integrable distribution of a lightlike hypersurface can be an extrinsic sphere. We also prove that the geometry of any leaf of an integrable distribution is closely related to the geometry of a normal bundle.     

Pseudosymmetric Lightlike Hypersurfaces in Indefinite Sasakian Space Forms

We study pseudosymmetric lightlike hypersurfaces of an indefinite Sasakian space form, tangent to the structure vector field. We obtain sufficient conditions for a lightlike hypersurface to be pseudosymmetric, pseudoparallel and Ricci-pseudosymmetric in an indefinite Sasakian space form. We also find certain conditions for a pseudosymmetric lightlike hypersurface of an indefinite Sasakian space form to be totally geodesic and check the effect of Weyl projective pseudosymmetry conditions on the geometry of a lightlike hypersurface of an indefinite Sasakian space form. Moreover we give some physical interpretations of pseudo-symmetry conditions.     

CR-hypersurfaces of a conformal Kenmotsu manifold satisfying certain shape operator conditions

In this paper, conformal Kenmotsu manifolds are introduced. We consider CR-hypersurfaces of a conformal Kenmotsu manifold whose shape operator is parallel, scalar, recurrent or Lie \( \xi \)-parallel. It is proved that if the Lee vector field of a conformal Kenmotsu manifold is tangent and normal to these type of CR-hypersurfaces then the CR-hypersurfaces are totally geodesic and totally umbilic, respectively. An example of a three-dimensional conformal Kenmotsu manifold is constructed for illustration that is not Kenmotsu.     

Hopf hypersurfaces in pseudo-Riemannian complex and para-complex space forms

The study of real hypersurfaces in pseudo-Riemannian complex space forms and para-complex space forms, which are the pseudo-Riemannian generalizations of the complex space forms, is addressed. It is proved that there are no umbilic hypersurfaces, nor real hypersurfaces with parallel shape operator in such spaces. Denoting by J be the complex or para-complex structure of a pseudo-complex or para-complex space form respectively, a non-degenerate hypersurface of such space with unit normal vector field N is said to be Hopf if the tangent vector field JN is a principal direction. It is proved that if a hypersurface is Hopf, then the corresponding principal curvature (the Hopf curvature) is constant. It is also observed that in some cases a Hopf hypersurface must be, locally, a tube over a complex (or para-complex) submanifold, thus generalizing previous results of Cecil, Ryan and Montiel.     

Affine hypersurfaces with the Ricci semi-symmetry

The purpose of the present paper is to prove that either a proper affine hypersphere or an affine cylindrical (See Introduction) is the only nondegenerate affine hypersurface of affine space with torsion free affine connection which satisfies the Ricci semi-symmetry and to study the equivalence of semi-symmetric and Ricci semi-symmetric in the case of affine hypersurfaces     

Totally geodesic hypersurfaces of four-dimensional generalized symmetric spaces

We prove that a four-dimensional generalized symmetric space does not admit any non-degenerate hypersurfaces with parallel second fundamental form, in particular non-degenerate totally geodesic hypersurfaces, unless it is locally symmetric. However, spaces which are known as generalized symmetric spaces of type C do admit non-degenerate parallel hypersurfaces and we verify that they are indeed symmetric. We also give a complete and explicit classification of all non-degenerate totally geodesic hypersurfaces of spaces of this type.     

Almost contact metric manifolds whose Reeb vector field is a harmonic section

We investigate almost contact metric manifolds whose Reeb vector field is a harmonic unit vector field, equivalently a harmonic section. We first consider an arbitrary Riemannian manifold and characterize the harmonicity of a unit vector field ??, when ??? is symmetric, in terms of Ricci curvature. Then, we show that for the class of locally conformal almost cosymplectic manifolds whose Reeb vector field ?? is geodesic, ?? is a harmonic section if and only if it is an eigenvector of the Ricci operator. Moreover, we build a large class of locally conformal almost cosymplectic manifolds whose Reeb vector field is a harmonic section. Finally, we exhibit several classes of almost contact metric manifolds where the associated almost contact metric structures ?? are harmonic sections, in the sense of Vergara-Diaz and Wood?[25], and in some cases they are also harmonic maps.     

The Kenmotsu hypersurfaces axiom for 6-dimensional Hermitian submanifolds of the Cayley algebra

We prove that every 6-dimensional Hermitian submanifold of the Cayley algebra satisfying the Kenmotsu Hypersurfaces Axiom is a locally symmetric submanifold of Ricci type.     

On a Kaehler hypersurface with the cyclic Ricci semi-symmetric tensor

The purpose of the present paper is to prove that a Kaehler hypersurface with the cyclic Ricci semi-symmetric tensor is locally symmetric.     

Screen Integrable Lightlike Hypersurfaces of Indefinite Sasakian Manifolds

We investigate lightlike hypersurfaces of indefinite Sasakian manifolds, tangent to the structure vector field ξ and whose screen distribution is integrable. We prove some results on parallel vector fields and on a leaf of the integrable distribution of this class. A theorem on a geometrical configuration of the screen distribution is obtained. We show that any totally contact umbilical leaf of a screen integrable distribution of a lightlike hypersurface is an extrinsic sphere. Received: February 22, 2008., Revised: June 18, 2008., Accepted: July 10, 2008.     

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.

     

Conformally flat real hypersurfaces in nonflat complex planes

In this paper, we prove that there are no conformally flat real hypersurfaces in nonflat complex space forms of complex dimension two provided that the structure vector field is an eigenvector field of the Ricci operator. This extends some recent results by Cho (Conformally flat normal almost contact 3-manifolds, Honam Math. J. 38 (2016) 59–69) and Kon (3-dimensional real hypersurfaces with η-harmonic curvature, in: Hermitian–Grassmannian Submanifolds, Springer, Singapore, 2017, pp. 155–164).     

On spacelike hypersurfaces with constant scalar curvature in locally symmetric Lorentz spaces

The purpose of this paper is to study compact or complete spacelike hypersurfaces with constant normalized scalar curvature in a locally symmetric Lorentz space satisfying some curvature conditions. We give an optimal estimate of the squared norm of the second fundamental form of such hypersurfaces. Furthermore, the totally umbilical hypersurfaces are characterized.     

Radical transversal lightlike hypersurfaces of almost complex manifolds with Norden metric

In this paper we introduce radical transversal lightlike hypersurfaces of almost complex manifolds with Norden metric. Such class of lightlike hypersurfaces cannot exist for indefinite almost Hermitian manifolds. The considered lightlike hypersurfaces have two important properties. The first one is the uniqueness of their screen distributions, which implies that the induced geometric objects are well-defined. The second property is that the induced Ricci tensor on radical transversal lightlike hypersurface of a Kähler manifold with Norden metric is symmetric. This allows to define an induced scalar curvature of the hypersurface. We obtain new results about lightlike hypersurfaces concerning their relations with non-degenerate hypersurfaces of almost complex manifolds with Norden metric. Examples of the considered hypersurfaces are given.     

The geometry of closed conformal vector fields on Riemannian spaces

In this paper we examine different aspects of the geometry of closed conformal vector fields on Riemannian manifolds. We begin by getting obstructions to the existence of closed conformal and nonparallel vector fields on complete manifolds with nonpositive Ricci curvature, thus generalizing a theorem of T.K. Pan. Then we explain why it is so difficult to find examples, other than trivial ones, of spaces having at least two closed, conformal and homothetic vector fields. We then focus on isometric immersions, firstly generalizing a theorem of J. Simons on cones with parallel mean curvature to spaces furnished with a closed, Ricci null conformal vector field; then we prove general Bernstein-type theorems for certain complete, not necessarily cmc, hypersurfaces of Riemannian manifolds furnished with closed conformal vector fields. In particular, we obtain a generalization of theorems J. Jellett and A. Barros and P. Sousa for complete cmc radial graphs over finitely punctured geodesic spheres of Riemannian space forms.     

Classification of locally rotationally symmetric Bianchi-I space–times using conformal Ricci collineations

We present a complete classification of locally rotationally symmetric (LRS) Bianchi-I space–times in accordance with their conformal Ricci collineations (CRCs). In the case where the Ricci tensor is nondegenerate, we find a general form of the vector field generating CRCs subject to some integrability conditions. Solving the integrability conditions in different cases, we find that the LRS Bianchi-I space–times admit 7-, 10-, 11-, or 15-dimensional Lie algebras of CRCs in the case where the Ricci tensor is nondegenerate. Moreover, we find that these space–times admit an infinite number of CRCs if the Ricci tensor is degenerate. We give some examples of LRS Bianchi-I space–times that admit nontrivial CRCs and are models of a perfect fluid.