Geometry of Warped Product CR-Submanifolds in Kaehler Manifolds, II

 A CR-submanifold N of a Kaehler manifold is called a CR-warped product if N is the warped product of a holomorphic submanifold and a totally real submanifold of . This notion of CR-warped products was introduced in part I of this series. It was proved in part I that every CR-warped product in a Kaehler manifold satisfies a basic inequality: . The classification of CR-warped products in complex Euclidean space satisfying the equality case of the inequality is archived in part I. The main purpose of this second part of this series is to classify CR-warped products in complex projective and complex hyperbolic spaces which satisfy the equality. (Received 13 March 2001; in revised form 10 August 2001)     

Contact CR-Warped Product Submanifolds in Sasakian Space Forms

Recently, B.-Y. Chen studied warped products which are CR-submanifolds in Kaehler manifolds and established general sharp inequalities for CR-warped products in Kaehler manifolds. Afterwards, I. Hasegawa and the present author obtained a sharp inequality for the squared norm of the second fundamental form (an extrinsic invariant) in terms of the warping function for contact CR-warped products isometrically immersed in Sasakian manifolds. In this paper, we improve the above inequality for contact CR-warped products in Sasakian space forms. Some applications are derived. A classification of contact CR-warped products in spheres, which satisfy the equality case, identically, is given.Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000). 53C40, 53C25.     

Geometry of Warped Product CR-Submanifolds in Kaehler Manifolds, II

 A CR-submanifold N of a Kaehler manifold is called a CR-warped product if N is the warped product of a holomorphic submanifold and a totally real submanifold of . This notion of CR-warped products was introduced in part I of this series. It was proved in part I that every CR-warped product in a Kaehler manifold satisfies a basic inequality: . The classification of CR-warped products in complex Euclidean space satisfying the equality case of the inequality is archived in part I. The main purpose of this second part of this series is to classify CR-warped products in complex projective and complex hyperbolic spaces which satisfy the equality.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">CR</Emphasis>-Warped Products in Complex Projective Spaces with Compact Holomorphic Factor

A submanifold of a Kaehler manifold is called a CR-warped product if it is the warped product N_T ×_fN of a complex submanifold N_T and a totally real submanifold N. There exist many CR-warped products N_T ×_fN in CP^h+p, h = dim_CN_T and p = dim_RN (see [5, 6]). In contrast, we prove in this article that the situation is quite different if the holomorphic factor N_T is compact. For such CR-wraped products in CP^m (4), we prove the following: (1) The complex dimension m of the ambient space is at least h + p + hp. (2) If m = h + p + hp, then N_T is CP^h(4). We also obtain two geometric inequalities for CR-warped products in CP^m with compact N_T.     

Contact CR-Warped Product Submanifolds in Sasakian Manifolds

Recently, B.-Y. Chen studied warped products which are CR-submanifolds in Kaehler manifolds and established general sharp inequalities for CR-warped products in Kaehler manifolds. In the present paper, we obtain a sharp inequality for the squared norm of the second fundamental form (an extrinsic invariant) in terms of the warping function for contact CR-warped products isometrically immersed in Sasakian manifolds. The equality case is considered. Also, the minimum codimension of a contact CR-warped product in an odd-dimensional sphere is determined.     

Complete nondegenerate locally standard CR manifolds

Abstract. Let M be a complete nondegenerate locally standard CR manifold. We show that a necessary and sufficient condition for M to be compact is that the Lie algebra of its infinitesimal CR automorphisms is semisimple. In general we realize M as a Mostow fibration over a compact CR manifoldB whose universal covering is a Cartesian product of Hermitian symmetric spaces and compact nondegenerate standard CR manifolds. Received: 22 July 1998 / Published online: 8 May 2000     

Doubly warped product <Emphasis Type="Italic">CR</Emphasis>-submanifolds in locally conformal Kähler manifolds

In this paper we study doubly warped product CR submanifolds in locally conformal K?hler manifolds, and we found a B.Y. Chen’s type inequality for the second fundamental form of these submanifolds. Beneficiary of a CNR-NATO Advanced Research Fellowship pos. 216.2167 Prot. n. 0015506.     

Geometry of warped product pseudo-slant submanifolds of Kenmotsu manifolds

In this paper, we study pseudo-slant submanifolds and their warped products in Kenmotsu manifolds. We obtain the necessary conditions that a pseudoslant submanifold is locally a warped product and establish an inequality for the squared norm of the second fundamental form in terms of the warping function. The equality case is also considered.     

On a class of symmetric CR manifolds

We study and classify a large class of minimal orbits in complex flag manifolds for the holomorphic action of a real Lie group. These orbits are all symmetric CR spaces for the restriction of a suitable class of Hermitian invariant metrics on the ambient flag manifold. As a particular case we obtain that the standard compact homogeneous CR manifolds associated with semisimple Levi-Tanaka algebras are symmetric CR-spaces.     

On submanifolds of Lxf F satisfying Chen's basic equality

It is well known that the warped product Lx_f F of a line L and a Kaehler manifold F is an almost contact Riemannian manifold which is characterized by some tensor equations appeared in (1.7) and (1.8). In this paper we determine submanifolds of Lx_f F which are tangent to the structure vector field and satisfy Chen's basic equality. Also, we investigate tubular hypersurfaces of Lx_f CE ^m which satisfy Chen's basic equality where CE ^m is a complex Euclidean m-space. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Almost Hermitian manifolds admitting holomorphically planar conformal vector fields

We classify and characterize an almost Hermitian manifold M admitting a holomorphically planar conformal vector (HPCV) field (a generalization of a closed conformal vector field) V . We show that if V is nowhere vanishing and strictly non-geodesic, then it is homothetic and almost analytic. If, in addition,M satisfies Gray’s first condition, then M is Kaehler. For a semi-Kaehler manifold M admitting an HPCV field V we show that either V is closed, or M becomes almost Kaehler and V is homothetic and almost analytic. Part of this work was done by the second author while he was visiting Sri Sathya Sai Institute Of Higher Learning, Prasanthinilayam, India.     

Conformal vector fields on Kaehler manifolds

It is known that a conformal vector field on a compact Kaehler manifold is a Killing vector field. In this paper, we are interested in finding conditions under which a conformal vector field on a non-compact Kaehler manifold is Killing. First we prove that a harmonic analytic conformal vector field on a 2n-dimensional Kaehler manifold (n ≠ 2) of constant nonzero scalar curvature is Killing. It is also shown that on a 2n-dimensional Kaehler Einstein manifold (n > 1) an analytic conformal vector field is either Killing or else the Kaehler manifold is Ricci flat. In particular, it follows that on non-flat Kaehler Einstein manifolds of dimension greater than two, analytic conformal vector fields are Killing.     

Lagrangian submanifolds in para-Kähler manifolds

In this paper we initiate the study of Lagrangian submanifolds in para-Kähler manifolds. In particular, we prove two general optimal inequalities for Lagrangian submanifolds of the flat para-Kähler manifold . Moreover, we completely classify Lagrangian submanifolds which satisfy the equality case of one of the two inequalities.     

CR-Warped Products in Complex Projective Spaces with Compact Holomorphic Factor

A submanifold of a Kaehler manifold is called a CR-warped product if it is the warped product N_T ×_fN of a complex submanifold N_T and a totally real submanifold N. There exist many CR-warped products N_T ×_fN in CP^h+p, h = dim_CN_T and p = dim_RN (see [5, 6]). In contrast, we prove in this article that the situation is quite different if the holomorphic factor N_T is compact. For such CR-wraped products in CP^m (4), we prove the following: (1) The complex dimension m of the ambient space is at least h + p + hp. (2) If m = h + p + hp, then N_T is CP^h(4). We also obtain two geometric inequalities for CR-warped products in CP^m with compact N_T.     

Second variation and Legendrian stabilities of minimal Legendrian submanifolds in Sasakian manifolds

First, we derive a new second variation formula which holds for minimal Legendrian submanifolds in Sasakian manifolds. Using this, we prove that any minimal Legendrian submanifold in an η-Einstein Sasakian manifold with “nonpositive” η-Ricci constant is stable. Next we introduce the notion of the Legendrian stability of minimal Legendrian submanifolds in Sasakian manifolds. Using our second variation formula, we find a general criterion for the Legendrian stability of minimal Legendrian submanifolds in η-Einstein Sasakian manifolds with “positive” η-Ricci constant.     

Free abelian covers, short loops, stable length, and systolic inequalities

We explore the geometry of the Abel–Jacobi map f from a closed, orientable Riemannian manifold X to its Jacobi torus . Applying M. Gromov’s filling inequality to the typical fiber of f, we prove an interpolating inequality for two flavors of shortest length invariants of loops. The procedure works, provided the lift of the fiber is non-trivial in the homology of the maximal free abelian cover, , classified by f. We show that the finite-dimensionality of the rational homology of is a sufficient condition for the homological non-triviality of the fiber. When applied to nilmanifolds, our “fiberwise” inequality typically gives stronger information than the filling inequality for X itself. In dimension 3, we present a sufficient non-vanishing condition in terms of Massey products. This condition holds for certain manifolds that do not fiber over their Jacobi torus, such as 0-framed surgeries on suitable links. Our systolic inequality applies to surface bundles over the circle (provided the algebraic monodromy has 1-dimensional coinvariants), even though the Massey product invariant vanishes for some of these bundles. A. I. Suciu was supported by the National Science Foundation (grant DMS-0105342).     

Harmonic Riemannian maps on locally conformal Kaehler manifolds

We study harmonic Riemannian maps on locally conformal Kaehler manifolds (lcK manifolds). We show that if a Riemannian holomorphic map between lcK manifolds is harmonic, then the Lee vector field of the domain belongs to the kernel of the Riemannian map under a condition. When the domain is Kaehler, we prove that a Riemannian holomorphic map is harmonic if and only if the lcK manifold is Kaehler. Then we find similar results for Riemannian maps between lcK manifolds and Sasakian manifolds. Finally, we check the constancy of some maps between almost complex (or almost contact) manifolds and almost product manifolds.     

Minimal entropy and simplicial volume

We prove that MinEnt (Y) ∥Y∥ = MinEnt(X) ∥X∥, for manifolds Y whose fundamental group is a subexponential extension of the fundamental group of some negatively curved, locally symmetric manifold X. This is a particular case of a more general result holding for an arbitrary representation ρ : π₁ (Y) →π₁ (X), which relates the minimal entropy and the simplicial volume of X to some invariants of the couple (Y, ker (ρ)). Then, we discuss some applications to the minimal volume problem and to Einstein metrics. Received: 23 December 1998     

Non-existence of Warped Product Semi-Slant Submanifolds of Kaehler Manifolds

In this paper, we show that there are no warped product semi-slant submanifolds of Kaehler manifolds. Contrary to this result,we provide an elementary example of a CR-warped product submanifold of a Kaehler manifold     

Inequalities for cohomology classes of Kaehler manifolds

A set of inequalities for deRham cohomology classes of Kaehler manifolds is proved. As an application, an inequality for Chern numbers of a Kaehler manifold is obtained.