Notes on contact \(\eta\)-Einstein metrics as Ricci solitons (Q375926)

This paper deals with contact metric manifolds whose metric is a Ricci soliton. The main theorem says that if the metric \(g\) of an \(\eta\)-Einstein contact metric manifold \(M^{2n+1}\) is a non-trivial Ricci soliton, then \(M\) is \(K\)-contact and the soliton is expanding Another important result proved in this paper is that if \((M,g)\) is a compact \(\eta\)-Einstein contact metric manifold and \(g\) is a non-trivial Ricci solition, then \((M,g)\) is Sasakian. In other words, there is no compact, non-trivial Ricci solition in \(\eta\)-Einstein contact metric manifolds.