Almost Schouten solitons and almost cosymplectic manifolds (Q6168188): Difference between revisions

This paper describes variations of Schouten solitons (including almost Schouten solitons and gradient Schouten solitons on almost cosymplectic manifolds) and what the authors call \(\alpha\)-almost cosymplectic manifolds. Schouten solitons are self-similiar solutions of the Schouten flow defined by \(\mathcal{L}_V g + 2S_t + 2\beta g = 0\), where \(S_t\) is the Schouten tensor defined by \[S(t) = \frac{1}{n-2} \left(S - \frac{r}{2(n-1)} \right) g ,\] \(\beta\) is a real number, \(\mathcal{L}_V\) is the Lie derivative in the direction of a potential vector field \(V\), \(S\) is a Ricci tensor, \(r\) is scalar curvature and \(g\) is a Riemannian metric. The simplest example of a Schouten soliton is an Einstein manifold. In [\textit{V. Borges}, Nonlinear Anal., Theory Methods Appl., Ser. A, Theory Methods 221, Article ID 112883, 15 p. (2022; Zbl 1489.35224)], an example of a gradient Schouten soliton in a Riemannian manifold is described. The authors generalize to an almost Schouten soliton by taking \(\beta\) above to be a real function. They also generalize the notion of a cosymplectic manifold to an ``almost cosymplectic manifold'', and further to an \(\alpha\)-cosymplectic manifold. The bulk of the paper characterizes almost Schouten solitons and gradient Schoulten solitons on an almost cosymplectic manifold.