Four-dimensional almost Einstein manifolds with skew-circulant stuctures (Q2175729)

The authors study a 4-dimensional Riemannian manifold \((M,g)\), which is equipped locally with an additional structure \(S\), which satisfies \(S^4=-\mathrm{id}\). The matrix \(S\) with respect to a local basis \(\{e_i\}\) is a special skew-circulant matrix, i.e., \(S\) is a skew-circulant structure. We recall that the skew circulant matrix is a matrix where each row is a cyclic shift of the row above to the right. Note that this skew-circulant matrix \(S\) is not defined as a tensor \(S\) on the manifold \(M\). The structure \(S\) can be considered as defined only in one coordinate map and, in fact, on \(\mathbb{R}^4\), or as an invariant structure on a Lie group. The manifold \((M,g,S)\) is associated with a Hermitian manifold \((M,g,J)\), where \(J=S^2\) is a complex structure locally. The authors get conditions under which an orthogonal basis of type \(\{S^3x,S^2x,Sx,x\}\) exists. However, Theorem 4.5 requires a more complete proof. The authors study classes of Einstein and almost Einstein manifolds. For such manifolds, the authors obtain propositions for the sectional curvatures of some characteristic 2-planes in a tangent space of \(M\). The authors consider a Hermitian manifold associated with the studied manifold and find conditions for \(g\), under which it is a Kähler manifold. The authors construct some examples of the considered manifolds on Lie groups and find some of their geometric characteristics.