On an existence theorem of Wagner manifolds (Q2500591)

The paper under review deals with the problem of finding conditions for a \(1\)-form \(\beta\) to be the perturbation of a Riemannian manifold \((M,\alpha)\) such that the manifold equipped with any \((\alpha,\beta)\) is a Wagner manifold with respect to the Wagner connection induced by \(\beta\). One of these conditions shows that its covariant derivative with respect to the Levi-Civita connection must be of a special form \[ (\nabla \beta)(X,Y)=\| \beta^{\#}\| ^{2} \alpha (X,Y) - \beta(X) \beta (Y). \] This paper presents a family of Riemannian manifolds admitting nontrivial solutions. Furthermore, it is proved as a structure theorem that there are no further essentially different examples. Certain examples of Wagnerian Finsler manifolds are also given.