A new geometric structure on tangent bundles (Q2667799)

The geometry of the tangent bundle \(TN\) of a Riemannian manifold \((N,g)\) has been a topic of considerable interest for at least 60 years. Several different geometries on the tangent bundle \(TN\) have been constructed using the splitting \(TTN = HN \oplus VN\) of \(TTN\) into a horizontal and a vertical part, where the subbundles \(HN\) and \(VN\) are both isomorphic to the tangent bundle \(TN\). Using the Riemannian metric \(g\) one can define a canonical symplectic structure \(\Omega\) on \(TN\) by the musical isomorphism between the tangent bundle and the cotangent bundle. For \(\bar{X}\in TTN\), write \(\bar{X}\simeq \left(\Pi \bar{X}, K \bar{X}\right)\) where \(\Pi \bar{X}\in HN\) and \(K\bar{X}\in VN\). In this paper, the authors use an almost paracomplex structure \(J\) on \(TN\) compatible with \(\Omega\) to construct a neutral metric \(G\) on \(TN\). In particular, they study \(TN\) endowed with the following neutral metric \[ G(\bar{X},\bar{Y}) = g(\Pi \bar{X}, K\bar{Y}) + g(K\bar{X},\Pi\bar{Y}). \] This paper is devoted to the study of the geometric properties and submanifolds of the neutral metric \(G\). In Theorem 1, they describe the four main properties of the neutral metric \(G\), showing that it is scalar flat and specifying under which conditions it is Einstein, locally conformally flat and locally symmetric. In Theorem 2, they characterize the geodesics of \(G\). In Theorem 3, the authors show that if \(TN\) contains a Lagrangian graph with parallel mean curvature, then the neutral metric \(G\) is Ricci flat. In Theorem 4, they prove the existence of a minimal isometric embedding of the space of oriented lines in \(\mathbb{R}^3\), \((\mathbb{L}(\mathbb{R}^3),\mathbb{G},\mathbb{J})\) with geometry derived from the standard Kähler structure \((T\mathbb{S}^2,g,J)\), into \((T\mathbb{R}^3,G)\). The authors introduce this new geometry in the context of almost Kähler and almost para-Kähler structures in Section 2. Theorem 1 is proven in Section 3, while proofs of Theorems 2 and 3 are contained in Sections 4.1 and 4.2, respectively. Theorem 4 is proven in the final section.