Positive and negative 3-K-contact structures

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-00-05527-1MaRDI QIDQ4510070zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Włodzimierz Jelonek

Publication date 19 October 2000

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1090/s0002-9939-00-05527-1

zbMATH Keywords

3-\(K\)-contact structure\(\mathcal{A}\)-manifoldquaternionic-Kähler manifoldSasakian structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

Review text

Let \((g,\eta_i,\xi_i, \varphi_i)\), \(i=1,2,3\), be three distinct \(K\)-contact structures on a manifold \(P\) such that \(g(\xi_i,\xi_j)= \delta_{i j}\), \([\xi_i, \xi_j]= 2\varepsilon_{ijk} \xi_k\), \(\varphi_i\xi_j=-\varepsilon_{ ijk} \xi_k\). \((g,\eta_i, \xi_k, \varphi_i)\), \(i=1,2,3\), is called a positive (respectively negative) 3-\(K\)-contact structure if (for \(i\neq j)\), \(J_i J_j= \varepsilon_{ijk} J_k\) (respectively \(J_iJ_j=-\varepsilon_{ijk} J_k)\), where \(J_i=\varphi_i |_H\) and \(H=\cap \text{ker} \eta_i\). Such a manifold has dimension \(4n+3\), moreover the positive 3-\(K\)-contact structures are the usual \(K\)-contact 3-structures. In this paper the author proves that if \(n\neq 2\), then (a) every \(K\)-contact 3-structure is 3-Sasakian; (b) the Ricci tensor \(\rho\) of every negative 3-\(K\)-contact structure has two constant eigenvalues and satisfies \(\nabla_X \rho(X,X) =0\) for all local vector fields \(X\) on \(P\). Remark of the Reviewer: \textit{T. Kashiwada} [``On a contact 3-structure, preprint (2000)] recently proved the result that every contact metric 3-structure is 3-Sasakian.

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