On the geometry of normal locally conformal almost cosymplectic manifolds

Normal locally conformal almost cosymplectic structures (or -structures) are considered. A full set of structure equations is obtained, and the components of the Riemannian curvature tensor and the Ricci tensor are calculated. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the constancy of the curvature of such manifolds are found. In particular, it is shown that a normal -manifold which is a spatial form has nonpositive curvature. The constancy of ΦHS-curvature is studied. Expressions for the components of the Weyl tensor on the space of the associated G-structure are obtained. Necessary and sufficient conditions for a normal -manifold to coincide with the conformal plane are found. Finally, locally symmetric normal -manifolds are considered.     

On geometry of weakly cosymplectic manifolds

We consider classes of weakly cosymplectic manifolds whose Riemannian curvature tensors satisfy contact analogs of the Riemannian–Christoffel identities. Additional properties of the Riemannian curvature tensor symmetry are found and a classification of weakly cosymplectic manifolds is obtained.     

On conformally flat almost Hermitian manifolds

We study some of 2n-dimensional conformally flat almost Hermitian manifolds with J-(anti)-invariant Ricci tensor. Received 13 May 2000; revised 15 February 2001.     

A basic inequality for submanifolds in locally conformal almost cosymplectic manifolds

For submanifolds tangent to the structure vector field in locally conformal almost cosymplectic manifolds of pointwise constantφ-sectional curvature, we establish a basic inequality between the main intrinsic invariants of the submanifold on one side, namely its sectional curvature and its scalar curvature; and its main extrinsic invariant on the other side, namely its squared mean curvature. Some applications including inequalities between the intrinsic invariantδ _M and the squared mean curvature are given. The equality cases are also discussed.     

Contact Lie form and concircular geometry of locally conformally quasi-Sasakian manifolds

We introduce a class of almost contact metric structures admitting a locally concircular transformation into a quasi-Sasakian structure, namely, locally concircularly quasi-Sasakian structures. We obtain a criterion that singles out this subclass of structures from the class of locally conformally quasi-Sasakian structures. Some applications and generalizations of this result are obtained.     

On locally conformal almost Kähler manifolds

In the first section of this note, we discuss locally conformal symplectic manifolds, which are differentiable manifoldsV ²ⁿ endowed with a nondegenerate 2-form Ω such thatdΩ=θ ∧ Ω for some closed form θ. Examples and several geometric properties are obtained, especially for the case whendΩ ≠ 0 at every point. In the second section, we discuss the case when Ω above is the fundamental form of an (almost) Hermitian manifold, i.e. the case of the locally conformal (almost) Kähler manifolds. Characterizations of such manifolds are given. Particularly, the locally conformal Kähler manifolds are almost Hermitian manifolds for which some canonically associated connection (called the Weyl connection) is almost complex. Examples of locally conformal (almost) Kähler manifolds which are not globally conformal (almost) Kähler are given. One such example is provided by the well-known Hopf manifolds.     

On the geometry of model almost complex manifolds with boundary

We study some special almost complex structures on strictly pseudoconvex domains in ℝ^{2 n} . They appear naturally as limits under a nonisotropic scaling procedure and play a role of model objects in the geometry of almost complex manifolds with boundary. We determine explicitely some geometric invariants of these model structures and derive necessary and sufficient conditions for their integrability. As applications we prove a boundary extension and a compactness principle for some elliptic diffeomorphisms between relatively compact domains.     

Blowing-up points on locally conformally balanced manifolds

In this note, we show that the blowing-up of a point on a locally conformally balanced manifold also admits a locally conformally Balanced manifold structure.     

Cohomologies of locally conformally symplectic manifolds and solvmanifolds

We study the Morse–Novikov cohomology and its almost-symplectic counterpart on manifolds admitting locally conformally symplectic structures. More precisely, we introduce lcs cohomologies and we study elliptic Hodge theory, dualities, Hard Lefschetz condition. We consider solvmanifolds and Oeljeklaus–Toma manifolds. In particular, we prove that Oeljeklaus–Toma manifolds with precisely one complex place, and under an additional arithmetic condition, satisfy the Mostow property. This holds in particular for the Inoue surface of type \(S^0\).     

About the geometry of almost para-quaternionic manifolds

We provide a general criterion for the integrability of the almost para-quaternionic structure of an almost para-quaternionic manifold of dimension 4m8 in terms of the integrability of two or three sections of the defining rank three vector bundle . We relate it with the integrability of the canonical almost complex structure of the twistor space and with the integrability of the canonical almost para-complex structure of the reflector space of . We deduce that has plenty of locally defined, compatible, complex and para-complex structures, provided that is integrable.     

Differential geometry on almost tangent manifolds

Summary We start from a tensor field Q of type (1, 1) defined in a2n-dimensional manifold M which satisfies Q ²⁼⁰ and has rank n. The tensor field Q defines an almost tangent structure in M. We then introduce another tensor field P of the same type and having properties similar to those of Q. We then define and study the tensors H=PQ, V=QP, J=P−Q, K=P+Q, L=PQ−QP, (J, K, L) defining an almost quaternion structure of the second kind on M. We study the differential geometry on almost tangent manifolds in terms of these tensors. To ProfessorBeniamino Segre on his seventieth birthday Entrata in Redazione il 7 giugno 1973.     

Schouten curvature functions on locally conformally flat Riemannian manifolds

Consider a compact Riemannian manifold (M, g) with metric g and dimension n ≥ 3. The Schouten tensor A _g associated with g is a symmetric (0, 2)-tensor field describing the non-conformally-invariant part of the curvature tensor of g. In this paper, we consider the elementary symmetric functions {σ _k (A _g ), 1 ≤ k ≤ n} of the eigenvalues of A _g with respect to g; we call σ _k (A _g ) the k-th Schouten curvature function. We give an isometric classification for compact locally conformally flat manifolds which satisfy the conditions: A _g is semi-positive definite and σ _k (A _g ) is a nonzero constant for some k ∈ {2, ... , n}. If k = 2, we obtain a classification result under the weaker conditions that σ₂(A _g ) is a non-negative constant and (M ⁿ , g) has nonnegative Ricci curvature. The corresponding result for the case k = 1 is well known. We also give an isometric classification for complete locally conformally flat manifolds with constant scalar curvature and non-negative Ricci curvature. Udo Simon: Partially supported by Chinese-German cooperation projects, DFG PI 158/4-4 and PI 158/4-5, and NSFC.     

A sphere theorem on locally conformally flat even-dimensional manifolds

In this paper, we prove that a closed even-dimensional manifold which is locally conformally flat with positive scalar curvature, positive Euler characteristic and which satisfies some additional condition on its curvature is diffeomorphic to the sphere or projective space.     

Spectral geometry for almost isospectral hermitian manifolds

The following question was posed by M. Berger: Is it possible to determine from the spectrum of the real Laplacian whether or not a manifold is Kähler? The Kähler condition for Hermitian manifolds is found out from the invariants of the spectrum of some differential operators acting on forms of type (p, q). P. Gilkey and H. Donnelly proved the Berger conjecture for the complex Laplacian and the reduced complex Laplacian respectively. In this paper we consider the Berger conjecture of almost isospectral Hermitian manifolds about the complex Laplacian acting on forms of type (p, q). Then we can show that a closed complexm(≥ 3)-dimensional Hermitian manifold which is strongly (?2/m)-isospectral to the complex projective space CP ^m with the Fubini-Study metric is holomorphically isometric to CP ^m .     

Prescribed diagonal Schouten tensor in locally conformally flat manifolds

We consider the pseudo-euclidean space ${(\mathbb{R}^n, g)}$ , with n ≥  3 and ${g_{ij} = \delta_{ij} \varepsilon_i, \varepsilon_i = \pm 1}$ and tensors of the form ${T = \sum \nolimits_i \varepsilon_i f_i (x) dx_i^2}$ . In this paper, we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for a diagonal tensor to admit a metric ${\bar{g}}$ , conformal to g, so that ${A_{\bar g}=T}$ , where ${A_{\bar g}}$ is the Schouten Tensor of the metric ${\bar g}$ . The solution to this problem is given explicitly for special cases for the tensor T, including a case where the metric ${\bar g}$ is complete on ${\mathbb{R}^n}$ . Similar problems are considered for locally conformally flat manifolds. As an application of these results we consider the problem of finding metrics ${\bar g}$ , conformal to g, such that ${\sigma_2 ({\bar g })}$ or ${\frac{\sigma_2 ({\bar g })}{\sigma_1 ({\bar g })}}$ is equal to a given function. We prove that for some functions, f ₁ and f ₂, there exist complete metrics ${\bar{g} = g/{\varphi^2}}$ , such that ${\sigma_2 ({\bar g }) = f_1}$ or ${\frac{\sigma_2 ({\bar g })}{\sigma_1 ({\bar g })} = f_2}$ .