Special directions in complex contact manifolds (Q839694)

In the geometry of contact metric manifolds, a vector \(Y\) orthogonal to the characteristic vector field \(\xi\) is called a special direction if \(\nabla_ Y\xi=\alpha\,Y\). If the sectional curvatures of plane sections containing \(\xi\) are negative, such directions always exist. If \(\xi\) generates an Anosov flow on a \(3\)-dimensional contact manifold, one can investigate the situation in which special directions agree with the stable and unstable directions of the Anosov flow. In particular the Lie group \(\text{SL}(2,\mathbb R)\) admits a family of contact metric structures exhibiting these properties. In this paper, the authors develop the ideas of holomorphic and real special directions on a complex contact metric manifold. They first prove some existence results for special directions and then discuss a \(2\)-parameter family of complex contact metric structures on the Lie group \(\text{SL}(2,\mathbb C)\).