Non-existence of strictly monotone vector fields on certain Riemannian manifolds (Q313444): Difference between revisions

Let \((M, \langle, \rangle, \nabla)\) be a Riemannian manifold, \(X\in \mathfrak{X} (M)\) be a vector field and \(\gamma : I \subset \mathbb{R} \rightarrow M\) be a geodesic. Suppose \[ \Psi_{(X,\gamma)} (t) = \langle X (\gamma (t)), \gamma' (t) \rangle. \] The main results of the paper are Theorem 1 and two corollaries: Theorem 1. Let \(M\) be a connected complete Riemannian manifold with finite volume. If \(X \in \mathfrak{X} (M)\) is a monotone continuous vector field, then \(\Psi_{(X, \gamma)}\) is constant for every geodesic \(\gamma\). Corollary 1 states that if in the above situation \(X \in {\mathfrak{X}}^1 (M)\) is a monotone vector field, then \(X\) is a Killing field. Corollary 2 states that if \(X \in {\mathfrak{X}}^1 (M)\) is a strictly monotone vector field, then \(M\) has infinite volume. The authors also give an example of a complete non-compact Riemannian manifold with finite volume.