On a class of locally conformal manifolds (Q1611578)
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On a class of locally conformal manifolds (English)
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29 June 2003
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In this paper the authors consider locally conformal almost cosymplectic \((2m+1)\)-dimensional manifolds \(M(\Omega , \phi , \eta , \xi , f),\) where \(\Omega \) is a structure \(2\)-form of rank \(2m, \phi \) a tensor field of type \((1,1)\) and of rank \(2m\) which satisfies \(\phi ^2 = -Id + \eta \otimes \xi, \eta \) the structure \(1\)-form, \(\xi \) the structure vector field (Reeb vector field), \(f\) is a nonzero constant, and study their geometrical and structural properties. More precisely, they prove the following theorem: Let \(M(\Omega , \phi , \eta , \xi , f)\) be a locally conformal almost cosymplectic \((2m+1)\)-dimensional manifold and \(V\) the principal vector field on \(M (\eta (V)=C=\text{const})\). One has the following properties: (i) \(d({\mathfrak L}_V\Omega)=\eta \wedge {\mathfrak L}_V\Omega \), where \({\mathfrak L} \) is the Lie derivative; (ii) \(\phi V \) is a Killing vector field with the Reeb vector field \(\xi \) as generator; (iii) \(V, \phi V ,\) and \(\xi \) define a commutative triple, i.e. \([V, \xi ]=0, [\phi V, \xi ]=0, [V, \phi V]=0,\) where \([.,.] \) denotes the Lie bracket; (iv) setting \(\|V^2\|= l, \) one derives that \(\text{div} (\text{grad} ~l)=2ml, \|\text{grad } ~l \|^2=l^2,\) which proves that \(l \) is an isoparametric function; (v) if \({\mathbb L}\) is the operator of S. Goldberg, i.e. \({\mathbb L}u=u\wedge \Omega , u\in \Lambda ^1M, \) and setting \(u=V^{\flat },\) where \( \flat \) is the index lowering operator, then all \((2q+1)\)-forms \({\mathbb L}^qu\) are exterior recurrent, having \(\eta \) as recurrence form up to a constant; (vi) \(V\) is a self conformal vector field, i.e. \({\mathfrak L}_VV^{\flat } = CV^{\flat}\), \(C=\text{const}\); (vii) \(\text{grad} l\) is an exterior concurrent vector field, i.e. \(\nabla ^2\text{grad }l = l\eta \wedge dp \Rightarrow \text{Ric} (\text{grad }l, Z)=2ml~ g(\text{grad } l, Z)\) for all \(Z\in TM.\)
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cosymplectic manifold
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locally conformal manifold
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