Totally geodesic submanifolds in tangent bundle with \(g\)-natural metric (Q6486708)

The author considers a Riemannian manifold \((M, g)\) and its tangent bundle \(TM\) equipped with a \(g\)-natural (in the sense of \textit{O. Kowalski} and \textit{M. Sekizawa} [Bull. Tokyo Gakugei Univ., Sect. IV, Ser. Math. Nat. Sci. 40, 1--29 (1988; Zbl 0656.53021)]) metric \(G\). He shows that, under some technical assumptions on \(G\), a vector field \(X\) of constant length on \(M\) defines a totally geodesic submanifold \(X(M)\) of \((TM, G)\) if and only if \(X\) is parallel on \(M\). This generalizes an old result of the reviewer for the Sasaki metric [\textit{P. G. Walczak}, Bull. Acad. Pol. Sci., Sér. Sci. Math. 28, 161--165 (1980; Zbl 0475.53042)].