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.     

Hessian Comparison and Spectrum Lower Bound of Almost Hermitian Manifolds

The authors obtain a complex Hessian comparison for almost Hermitian manifolds, which generalizes the Laplacian comparison for almost Hermitian manifolds by Tossati, and a sharp spectrum lower bound for compact quasi Kähler manifolds and a sharp complex Hessian comparison on nearly Kähler manifolds that generalize previous results of Aubin, Li Wang and Tam-Yu.     

Twistorial examples of almost Hermitian manifolds with Hermitian Ricci tensor

We construct new twistorial examples of non-Kähler almost Hermitian manifolds with Hermitian Ricci tensor by means of a natural almost Hermitian structures on the twistor space of an almost Hermitian four manifold.     

On the Constant Type of Almost Hermitian Manifolds

We suggest a most natural generalization of the notion of constant type for nearly Kählerian manifolds introduced by A. Gray to arbitrary almost Hermitian manifolds. We prove that the class of almost Hermitian manifolds of zero constant type coincides with the class of Hermitian manifolds. We show that the class of G ₁-manifolds of zero constant type coincides with the class of 6-dimensional G ₁-manifolds with a non-integrable structure. Finally, we prove that the class of normal G ₂-manifolds of nonzero constant type coincides with the class of 4-dimensional G ₂-manifolds with a nonintegrable structure.     

Curvature identities on almost Hermitian manifolds and applications

We systematically derive the Bianchi identities for the canonical connection on an almost Hermitian manifold.Moreover,we also compute the curvature tensor of the Levi-Civita connection on almost Hermitian manifolds in terms of curvature and torsion of the canonical connection.As applications of the curvature identities,we obtain some results about the integrability of quasi K¨ahler manifolds and nearly K¨ahler manifolds.     

On the geometry of connections with totally skew-symmetric torsion on manifolds with additional tensor structures and indefinite metrics

This paper is a survey of results obtained by the authors on the geometry of connections with totally skew-symmetric torsion on the following manifolds: almost complex manifolds with Norden metric, almost contact manifolds with B-metric and almost hypercomplex manifolds with Hermitian and anti-Hermitian metric.     

On holomorphic harmonic morphisms

We study holomorphic harmonic morphisms from K?hler manifolds to almost Hermitian manifolds. When the codomain is also K?hler we get restrictions on such maps in the case of constant holomorphic curvature. We also prove a Bochner-type formula for holomorphic harmonic morphisms which, under certain curvature conditions of the domain, gives insight to the structure of the vertical distribution. We thus prove that when the domain is compact and non-negatively curved, the vertical distribution is totally geodesic. Received: 28 May 2001     

Local Riemann-Roch theorem for almost Hermitian manifolds

In this paper, we give a local Riemann-Roch theorem for certain almost Hermitian manifolds by a canonical connection and the theory of almost Hermitian structure of null eccentricity. In particular, we obtain a local Riemann-Roch theorem for all closed almost complex manifolds of dimension 4. Also, by using the heat equation method, we give an analytic approach to a local index theorem for generalized Dirac operators.     

Canonical connection on a class of Reimannian almost product manifolds

The canonical connection on a Reimannian almost product manifold is an analogue to the Hermitian connection on an almost Hermitian manifold. In this paper we consider the canonical connection on a class of Reimannian almost product manifolds with non-integrable almost product structure.     

Conformal Riemannian P-manifolds with connections whose curvature tensors are Riemannian P-tensors

The largest class of Riemannian almost product manifolds, which is closed with respect to the group of the conformal transformations of the Riemannian metric, is the class of the conformal Riemannian P-manifolds. This class is an analogue of the class of the conformal Kähler manifolds in almost Hermitian geometry. The main aim of this work is to obtain properties of manifolds of this class with connections, whose curvature tensors have similar properties as the Kähler tensors in Hermitian geometry.     

Generalized quasi-Kaehlerian manifolds and axioms ofCR-submanifolds in generalized Hermitian geometry,I

The class of almost Hermitian manifolds is widely generalized. The different characterizations of the isotropy of such manifolds are studied.     

Almost hermitian manifolds and Osserman condition

Let(M, g, J) be an almost Hermitian manifold. In this paper we study holomorphically nonnegatively(δ,Δ)-pinched almost Hermitian manifolds. In [3] it was shown that for such Kahler manifolds a plane with maximal sectional curvature has to be a holomorphic plane(J-invariant). Here we generalize this result to arbitrary almost Hermitian manifolds with respect to the holomorphic curvature tensorH R and toRK-manifolds of a constant type λ(p). In the proof some estimates of the sectional curvature are established. The results obtained are used to characterize almost Hermitian manifolds of constant holomorphic sectional curvature (with respect to holomorphic and Riemannian curvature tensor) in terms of the eigenvalues of the Jacobi-type operators, i.e. to establish partial cases of the Osserman conjecture. Some examples are studied. The first author is partially supported by SFS, Project #04M03.     

Riemannian manifolds with structure groupG 2

Summary Riemannian manifolds with structure group G ₂ are 7-dimensional and have a distinguished 3-form. In this paper such manifolds are treated as analogues of almost Hermitian manifolds. Thus S ⁷ has structure group G ₂ just as S ⁶ is an almost Hermitian manifold. We study the covariant derivative of the fundamental 3-form as was done in [GH]for almost Hermitian manifolds.     

On the Kenmotsu Hypersurfaces of Special Hermitian Manifolds

We consider almost contact metric hypersurfaces of almost Hermitian manifolds of class W₃ (in the Gray–Hervella terminology). We establish a criterion for minimality of such hypersurfaces in the case when the contact metric structure is cosymplectic.     

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 Almost Complex Lie Algebroids

The almost complex Lie algebroids over smooth manifolds are considered in the paper. In the first part, we give some examples and we extend some basic results from almost complex manifolds to almost complex Lie algebroids. Next the almost Hermitian Lie algebroids and some related structures on the associated complex Lie algebroid are studied.     

The sixteen classes of almost Hermitian manifolds and their linear invariants

Summary It is shown that in a natural way there are precisely sixteen classes of almost Hermitian manifolds.     

Submanifolds associated with graphs

In this paper we present an interesting relationship between graph theory and differential geometry by defining submanifolds of almost Hermitian manifolds associated with certain kinds of graphs. We show some results about the possibility of a graph being associated with a submanifold and we use them to characterize CR-submanifolds by means of trees. Finally, we characterize submanifolds associated with graphs in a four-dimensional almost Hermitian manifold.

     

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.     

Maps Interchanging f-Structures and their Harmonicity

We study some remarkable classes of metric f-structures on differentiable manifolds (namely, almost Hermitian, almost contact, almost S-structures and K-structures). We state and prove the necessary condition(s) for the existence of maps commuting such structures. The paper contains several new results, of geometric significance, on CR-integrable manifolds and the harmonicity of such maps.