Anti-quasi-Sasakian manifolds (Q6114470)

The authors introduce and investigate a new class of almost contact metric manifolds and call them anti-quasi-Saskian manifolds (aqS manifolds for short). Concretely, an almost contact metric manifold \((M,\varphi, \xi, \eta, g)\) with fundamental \(2\)-form \(\Phi(X,Y) = g(X,\varphi(Y))\) is said to be aqS if \[ d\Phi = 0,\qquad N_\varphi = 2d\eta\otimes \xi, \] where \(N_\varphi=[\varphi,\varphi]+d\eta\otimes \xi\) and \([\varphi,\varphi]\) is the Nijenhuis torsion of \(\varphi\). This class intersects the class of quasi-Saskian manifolds (where instead \(N_\varphi=0\) and \(d\Phi=0\)) precisely in the case of co-Kähler manifolds (i.e., where additionally \(\eta\) is closed). From the point of view of transverse geometry (with respect to the foliation by Reeb orbits) aqS geometry is characterized by a Kähler structure, together with a closed \((2,0)\)-form. The authors derive a Boothby-Wang fibration with this type of base manifold, in case the Reeb vector field is regular. As an important special case, there appear hyper-Kähler manifolds as quotients. Further examples of aqS manifolds include weighted Heisenberg groups and their nilmanifolds. The authors show that aqS manifolds with constant sectional curvature are flat and co-Kähler, and investigate more closely aqS manifolds with \(\xi\)-sectional curvatures one. Moreover, they show the existence of a canonical metric connection with torsion on any aqS manifold and explore the consequences of their geometry.