Symmetries of contact metric manifolds (Q1419414)

The authors study the Lie algebra of an isometry group of a compact Riemannian manifold admitting a Killing vector field \(\xi\) of constant length and in particular of K-contact Riemannian manifolds \((M,g,\xi)\). They prove that on a Sasakian manifold which is not 3-Sasakian or a space form every Killing vector field commutes with \(\xi\), consequently preserving the Sasakian structure. They also give a description of the Lie algebra of 3-Sasakian manifolds. The authors prove in a simple way that an irregular Sasakian manifold can not be homogeneous and classify all compact, simply connected homogeneous Sasakian manifolds.