Second order parallel tensors and Ricci solitons in 3-dimensional normal paracontact geometry (Q403623)

In this paper, the authors are looking for three-dimensional Ricci-solitons with a Lorentz metric (signature \((2, 1)\)). They start with an almost paracontact structure \((\varphi , \psi , \eta , g)\) at the beginning of the second section. Here, \(\eta\) is the almost-contact differential 1-form, \(\psi\) is a vector field (the dual of \(\eta\)), \(\varphi\) is a complex structure on the kernel \({\mathcal D}\) of \(\eta\) (actually a product structure, i.e., \(\varphi ^2 =I\)), and \(g\) satisfies \((\varphi \;, \varphi \;)=-g+\eta \otimes \eta\). \(M\) is normal (Definition 2.1) if \(\varphi\) extends to an integrable product structure on \(M\times {\mathbb R}\) with the natural product of \({\mathcal D}\times {\mathbb R}^2\). This is the same as (2.4) according to [\textit{J. Wełyczko}, Result. Math. 54, No. 3--4, 377--387 (2009; Zbl 1180.53080)]. There is a serious ``typo'' in the page 119, line 7. ``(1.4a)'' should possibly be ``the first equation of (2.4)''. Definition 2.2 says that 1. \(M\) is quasi-para-Sasakian if \(\alpha =0\) and \(\beta \neq 0\) (in (2.4)); and 2. para-Kenmotsu if \(\beta=0\) and \(\alpha \neq 0\). One of the major result is Theorem 3.1: If \(\rho\) is a parallel symmetric 2-tensor which is \(\varphi\) skew-symmetric, then it is a multiple of the metric \(g\). By applying Theorem 3.1 to the \(\rho\) in (4.11), the authors obtains all kind of Ricci-solitons.