On the curvature of contact metric manifolds
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: On the curvature of contact metric manifolds
zbMATH Open document ID: 0833.53033
DOI: 10.1007/BF01224050
author: Ramesh Sharma
published in: Journal of Geometry
publication date: 1996-03-11T00:00:00Z
review text: Let \(M^{2m+1}\) be a contact metric manifold and \((\omega, \xi, g, \varphi)\) its contact metric structure where \(\omega\) is a contact 1- form, \(\xi\) the characteristic vector field, \(g\) an associated Riemannian metric and \(\varphi\) a tensor field of type \((1,1)\). The author first studies the geometry of a contact metric manifold with parallel Ricci tensor. One of his results is the following: If \((M^{2m+1}, \omega, \xi, g)\) has parallel Ricci tensor and moreover \(Q\xi= f\xi\), \(f>2m-2\), where \(Q\) is the Ricci operator, then \((M^{2m+1}, g)\) is Einstein. Thereafter he studies contact metric manifolds with non-vanishing sectional curvature \(K(\xi, X)\) and \(K(\xi, X)= K(\xi, \varphi X)\) everywhere and for all \(X\perp \xi\). Also conformally flat contact metric manifolds are studied. Finally some results on the \(k\)-nullity distribution of contact metric manifolds are given.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C25
zbMATH DE Number: 785157
zbMATH Keywords: contact metric manifold
zbMATH Keywords: parallel Ricci tensor
zbMATH Keywords: Ricci operator
zbMATH Keywords: sectional curvature
zbMATH Keywords: conformally flat
zbMATH Keywords: \(k\)-nullity distribution
reviewed by: Domenico Perrone
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01224050
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 785157