The geometry of contact Lee forms and a contact analog of Ikuta’s theorem

Questions of the conformal geometry of quasi-Sasakian manifolds are studied. A contact analog of Ikuta’s theorem is obtained. It is proved that a regular locally conformally quasi-Sasakian structure is normal if and only if it is locally conformally cosymplectic and has closed contact form. It is shown that the Kenmotsu structures have these properties and that a structure with the above properties is a Kenmotsu structure if and only if its contact Lee form coincides with the contact form.     

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.     

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.     

A criterion for the concircular mobility of quasi-Sasakian manifolds

The following question is considered: Which quasi-Sasakian (cosymplectic, Sasakian, or proper quasi-Sasakian) structures admit nontrivial concircular transformations of their metrics (i.e., determine Fialkow spaces), and under what conditions. It is proved that any cosymplectic manifold is a Fialkow space. Necessary and sufficient conditions for a Sasakian or a quasi-Sasakian manifold to be a Fialkow space are obtained. A fairly large class of Sasakian manifolds which are not Fialkow spaces is described.     

Odd-dimensional counterparts of abelian complex and hypercomplex structures

We introduce the notion of abelian almost contact structures on an odd-dimensional real Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$. We investigate correspondences with even-dimensional Lie algebras endowed with an abelian complex structure, and with Kähler Lie algebras when $\mathfrak{g}$ carries a compatible inner product. The classification of 5-dimensional Sasakian Lie algebras with abelian structure is obtained. Later, we introduce abelian almost 3-contact structures on real Lie algebras of dimension $4n+3$, obtaining the classification of these Lie algebras in dimension 7. Finally, we deal with the geometry of a Lie group G endowed with a left invariant abelian almost 3-contact metric structure. We determine conditions for G to admit a canonical metric connection with skew torsion, which plays the role of the Bismut connection for hyperKähler with torsion (HKT) structures arising from abelian hypercomplex structures. We provide examples and discuss the parallelism of the torsion of the canonical connection.     

Foliations and Complemented Framed Structures on an Almost Contact Metric Manifold

On an odd dimensional manifold, we define a structure which generalizes several known structures on almost contact manifolds, namely Sasakian, trans-Sasakian, quasi-Sasakian, Kenmotsu and cosymplectic structures. This structure, hereinafter called a generalized quasi-Sasakian, shortly G.Q.S. structure, is defined on an almost contact metric manifold and satisfies an additional condition. Then we consider a distribution D₁{\mathcal{D}_{1}} wich allows a suitable decomposition of the tangent bundle of a G.Q.S. manifold. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the normality of the complemented framed structure on the distribution D₁{\mathcal{D}_{1}} defined on a G.Q.S manifold are studied. The existence of the foliation on G.Q.S. manifolds and of bundle-like metrics are also proven. It is shown that under certain circumstances a new foliation arises and its properties are investigated. Some examples illustrating these results are given in the final part of this paper.     

On three-dimensional conformally flat quasi-Sasakian manifolds

LetM be a 3-dimensional quasi-Sasakian manifold. On such a manifold, the so-called structure function is defined. With the help of this function, we find necessary and sufficient conditions forM to be conformally flat. Next it is proved that ifM is additionally conformally flat with = const., then (a)M is locally a product ofR and a 2-dimensional Kählerian space of constant Gauss curvature (the cosymplectic case), or (b)M is of constant positive curvature (the non cosymplectic case; here the quasi-Sasakian structure is homothetic to a Sasakian structure). An example of a 3-dimensional quasi-Sasakian structure being conformally flat with nonconstant structure function is also described. For conformally flat quasi-Sasakian manifolds of higher dimensions see [O₁]     

关于切丛和单位切球丛的度量的一个注记

本文在黎曼流形$(M,g)$的切丛$TM$ 上研究与参考文献[10]中平行的一类度量$G$以及相容的近复结构$J$.证明了切丛$TM$关于这些度量和相应的近复结构是局部共形近K\"{a}hler流形,并且把这些结构限制在单位切球丛上得到了切触度量结构的新例子.     

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 contact metric statistical manifolds

A notion of almost contact metric statistical structure is introduced and thereby contact metric and K-contact statistical structures are defined. Furthermore a necessary and sufficient condition for a contact metric statistical manifold to admit K-contact statistical structure is given. Finally, the condition for an odd-dimensional statistical manifold to have K-contact statistical structure is expressed.     

Contact self-dual geometry of quasi-Sasakian 5-manifolds

We construct a self-dual geometry of quasi-Sasakian 5-manifolds. Namely, we intrinsically define the notion of contact conformally semiflat (i.e., contact self-dual or contact antiself-dual) almost contact metric manifolds and also obtain a number of results concerning contact conformally semiflat quasi-Sasakian 5-manifolds. Themost important results concerning Sasakian and cosymplectic manifolds reveal interesting relationships between the characteristics of these manifolds such as contact self-duality and constancy of the Φ-holomorphic sectional curvature, contact anti-self-duality and Ricci flatness, etc.     

On quasi-Sasakian hypersurfaces of Kähler manifolds

We establish several conditions which are necessary for a quasi-Sasakian hypersurface of a Kähler manifold to be minimal.     

Generalized Trans-Sasakian manifolds

In this paper, we study the class of almost contact metric manifolds which are conformal to Trans-Sasakian manifolds, and we construct concrete examples from almost Hermitian manifolds using the product of manifolds. As a consequence, we obtain several properties for the three-dimensional case.     

Dense computability structures

We examine computability structures on a metric space and the relationships between maximal, separable and dense computability structures. We prove that in a computable metric space which has the effective covering property and compact closed balls for a given computable sequence which is a metric basis there exists a unique maximal computability structure which contains that sequence. Furthermore, we prove that each maximal computability structure on a convex subspace of Euclidean space is dense. We also examine subspaces of Euclidean space on which each dense maximal computability structure is separable and prove that spheres, boundaries of simplices and conics are such spaces.     

Magnetic Trajectories in an Almost Contact Metric Manifold $${\mathbb{R}^{2N+1}}$$

In this paper we classify magnetic trajectories γ in \({{\mathbb{R}}^{2N+1}}\) endowed with a canonical quasi-Sasakian structure, corresponding to a magnetic field proportional to the fundamental 2-form. We prove that they are helices of order 5 and we show that there exists a totally geodesic \({{\mathbb{R}}^5}\) in \({\mathbb{R}^{2N+1}}\) such that γ lies in \({{\mathbb{R}}^5}\). Moreover, the quasi-Sasakian structure of \({{\mathbb{R}}^5}\) is that induced from the ambient manifold.     

Carathéodory - Fejér Problem for Pairs of Meromorphic Functions

We continue our study of families of pairs of matrix-valued meromorphic functions P(ρ,P) depending on two parameters p and P introduced in [2]. These include as special cases the projective Schur, Nevanlinna and Carathéodory classes. A two sided Carathéodory Fejér interpolation problem is defined and solved in P(ρ,P), using the fundamental matrix inequality method. A corresponding Schur algorithm is studied. Finally we also consider the case of functions (as opposed to pairs).     

Harmonic Almost Contact Structures

An almost contact metric structure is parametrized by a section σ of an associated homogeneous fibre bundle, and conditions for σ to be a harmonic section, and a harmonic map, are studied. These involve the characteristic vector field ξ, and the almost complex structure in the contact subbundle. Several examples are given where the harmonic section equations for σ reduce to those for ξ, regarded as a section of the unit tangent bundle. These include trans-Sasakian structures. On the other hand, there are examples where ξ is harmonic but σ is not a harmonic section. Many examples arise by considering hypersurfaces of almost Hermitian manifolds, with the induced almost contact structure, and comparing the harmonic section equations for both structures.      

Pseudoconformally-flat and pseudo-flat quasi-Sasakian manifolds

In this paper we consider the theory of pseudoconformally-flat (i.e., simultaneously contactly selfdual and contactly anti-selfdual) and pseudo-flat (i.e., simultaneously contactly R-selfdual and contactly R-anti-selfdual) 5-dimensional quasi-Sasakian manifolds.     

近Kaehler流形S^3× S^3上的殆切触拉格朗日子流形

对于近Kaehler流形S^3× S^3上的一个拉格朗日子流形M ,给出由M 上的一个单位向量场典范引出的殆切触度量结构是α-Sasakian 的充要条件。当这个殆切触度量结构为切触度量结构时,给出了这个切触度量结构是Sasakian结构的充分必要条件。     

Weak stability of almost regular contact foliations

We prove that on a compact manifold, a contact foliation obtained by a smallC ¹ perturbation of an almost regular contact flow has at least two closed characteristics. This solves the Weinstein conjecture for contact forms which areC ¹-close to almost regular contact forms.Supported in part by NSF Grant DMS 90-01861