Einstein-Weyl structures on contact metric manifolds (Q2391015)

A Weyl structure on a conformal manifold \((M,[g])\) of dimension \(n\geq 3\) is a pair \(W=([g],D)\) where \(D\) is the unique torsion free connection which preserves the conformal class \([g]\), i.e., \(Dg=-2\omega\otimes g\), for some \(1\)-form \(\omega\). It is said to be Einstein-Weyl if the symmetrized Ricci tensor associated with the Weyl connection is proportional to the Riemannian metric. In the paper under review the author deals with Weyl structures on contact metric manifolds. In particular, necessary and sufficient conditions for a contact metric manifold to admit some special Weyl structures are found. For instance, some interesting results of the paper are the following: Theorem A. A \(K\)-contact manifold of dimension \(2n+1 \geq 5\) admits both the Einstein-Weyl structures \(W^{+}=(g,\omega)\) and \(W^{-}=(g,-\omega)\) for some \(1\)-form \(\omega\) if and only if it is \(\eta\)-Einstein. It follows that if a complete \(K\)-contact manifold of dimension \(2n+1 \geq 5\) admits both the Einstein-Weyl structures \(W^{\pm}=(g,\pm\omega)\) then it is Sasakian. Theorem B. Let \((M,\phi,\xi,\eta,g)\) be a contact metric manifold such that the Ricci operator anti-commutes with \(\phi\). If \(M\) admits both of the Einstein-Weyl structures \(W^{\pm}=(g,\pm\omega)\) then \(M\) is either K-contact or Einstein. Theorem C. Let \((M,\phi,\xi,\eta,g)\) be a contact metric manifold such that the Reeb vector field \(\xi\) is an eigenvector of the Ricci operator at each point of \(M\). If \(M\) admits an Einstein-Weyl structure \(W=(g,\omega)\) with \(\omega=f\eta\) for some function \(f\), then \(M\) is either Einstein or \(K\)-contact \(\eta\)-Einstein.