Some curvature properties of paracontact metric manifolds (Q721003)

Motivated by the studies of the second-order parallel tensors on generalized \((k,\mu)\)-contact metric manifolds, the authors focus on paracontact metric manifolds admitting a second-order symmetric parallel tensor under certain conditions. First some basic results are presented on paracontact metric manifolds, followed by the study of Ricci semisymmetric paracontact metric manifolds satisfying \(\bigtriangledown_\xi h = 0\), such that the sectional curvature of the plane section containing \(\xi\) equals a non-zero constant \(c\). Under these assumptions they prove that a paracontact metric manifold is Ricci semisymmetric if and only if the manifold is Einstein. Also, the authors study paracontact metric manifolds satisfying the curvature condition \(Q \cdot R = 0\) where \(Q\) and \(R\) are the Ricci operator and the Riemannian curvature tensor, respectively, and second-order symmetric parallel tensors in paracontact metric manifolds under the same conditions. The main result is Theorem 5.2: Let \(M\) be a connected paracontact metric manifold such that \(\bigtriangledown_\xi h = 0\) and the sectional curvature of the plane section containing \(\xi\) equals a non-zero constant \(c\). If the manifold \(M\) admits a second-order symmetric parallel tensor, then the second-order symmetric parallel tensor is a constant multiple of the associated metric tensor. As an example the authors present Corollary 5.3: Let \(M\) be a connected paracontact metric manifold such that \(\bigtriangledown_\xi h = 0\) and the sectional curvature of the plane section containing \(\xi\) equals a non-zero constant \(c\). If the manifold \(M\) is Ricci symmetric then the manifold is Einstein.