Para-Sasaki-like Riemannian manifolds and new Einstein metrics (Q2031851)

An odd-dimensional manifold \((M,\phi,\xi,\eta)\) is said to be an almost paracontact manifold if \(\phi\) is a \((1, 1)\)-tensor field, \(\xi\) is a vector field and \(\eta\) is a 1-form, which satisfy the following conditions: \( \phi^2=Id-\eta\otimes\xi,\ \eta(\xi)=1\), \(\phi\xi = 0,\ \eta\circ\phi=0\). If \(H=\ker(\eta)\) is the paracontact distribution, the endomorphism \(\phi\) induces a product structure on each fiber of \(H\). In this paper the authors consider the case of almost paracontact paracomplex manifolds, i.e., their paracontact distribution \(H\) is equipped with an almost paracomplex structure. Let \(g\) be an associated Riemannian metric such that \(g(\phi x,\phi y)=g(x,y)-\eta(x)\eta(y), \ g(x,\xi)=\eta(x)\). Then the authors call \((M,\phi,\xi,\eta,g)\) an almost paracontact paracomplex Riemannian manifold. The aim of the paper is to define a new class of paracontact paracomplex Riemannian manifolds which arise under the condition that a certain Riemannian cone over it has a paraholomorphic paracomplex Riemannian (briefly, phpcR) structure. The authors call it para-Sasaki-like Riemannian manifold and give explicit examples. Studying the structure of the para-Sasaki-like Riemannian spaces, they show that the paracontact form \(\eta\) is closed and a para-Sasaki-like Riemannian manifold locally can be considered as a certain product of the real line with a phpcR manifold which locally is the Riemannian product of two Riemannian spaces with equal dimension. The authors also get that the curvature of the para-Sasaki-like manifolds is completely determined by the curvature of the underlying local phpcR manifold as well as the Ricci curvature in the direction of \(\xi\) is equal to \(-2n\) \textit{while in the Sasaki case it is \(2n\).} In this sense, the para-Sasaki-like manifolds can be considered as the counterpart of the Sasaki manifolds; the skew symmetric part of \(\nabla \eta\) vanishes while in the Sasaki case the symmetric (Killing) part vanishes. The authors define a hyperbolic extension of a paraholomorphic paracomplex Riemannian manifold, which is a local product of two Riemannian spaces with equal dimensions, showing that it is a para-Sasaki-like Riemannian manifold. If the starting paraholomorphic paracomplex Riemannian manifold is complete Einstein with negative scalar curvature then its hyperbolic extension is a complete Einstein para-Sasaki-like Riemannian manifold with negative scalar curvature thus producing new examples of complete Einstein Riemannian manifold with negative scalar curvature.