The geometry of generalized Cheeger-Gromoll metrics on the total space of transitive Euclidean Lie algebroids

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2019.02.010MaRDI QIDQ2422372zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Hasna Essoufi, M. Boucetta

Publication date 19 June 2019

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01254

zbMATH Keywords

Atiyah Lie algebroidsgeneralized Cheeger-Gromoll metricstransitive Lie algebroids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15)

Abstract: Natural metrics (Sasaki metric, Cheeger-Gromoll metric, Kaluza-Klein metrics etc.. ) on the tangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold is a central topic in Riemannian geometry. Generalized Cheeger-Gromoll metrics is a family of natural metrics $h_{p,q}$ depending on two parameters with $pinmathbbR$ and $qgeq0$. This family has been introduced recently and possesses interesting geometric properties. If $p=q=0$ we recover the Sasaki metric and when $p=q=1$ we recover the classical Cheeger-Gromoll metric. A transitive Euclidean Lie algebroid is a transitive Lie algebroid with an Euclidean product on its total space. In this paper, we show that natural metrics can be built in a natural way on the total space of transitive Euclidean Lie algebroids. Then we study the properties of generalized Cheeger-Gromoll metrics on this new context. We show a rigidity result of this metrics which generalizes so far all rigidity results known in the case of the tangent bundle. We show also that considering natural metrics on the total space of transitive Euclidean Lie algebroids opens new interesting horizons. For instance, Atiyah Lie algebroids constitute an important class of transitive Lie algebroids and we will show that natural metrics on the total space of Atiyah Euclidean Lie algebroids have interesting properties. In particular, if $M$ is a Riemannian manifold of dimension $n$, then the Atiyah Lie algebroid associated to the $mathrmO(n)$-principal bundle of orthonormal frames over $M$ possesses a family depending on a parameter $k>0$ of transitive Euclidean Lie algebroids structures say $AO(M,k)$. When $M$ is a space form of constant curvature $c$, we show that there exists two constants $C_n<0$ and $K(n,c)>0$ such that $(AO(M,k),h_{1,1})$ is a Riemannian manifold with positive scalar curvature if and only if $c>C_n$ and $0<kleqK(n,c)$.

Review text

The authors study generalized Cheeger-Gromoll metrics and their generalization to transitive Euclidean Lie algebroids. \textit{M. Benyounes} et al. introduced and studied a family $\{h_{p,q}\}_{p\in\mathbb R, q \geq 0}$ of Riemannian metrics on the tangent bundle, on the total space of a Euclidean vector bundle $E$ over a Riemannian manifold $M$, known as generalized Cheeger-Gromoll metrics, see [Differ. Geom. Appl. 25, No. 3, 322--334 (2007; Zbl 1128.53037); Tokyo J. Math. 32, No. 2, 287--312 (2009; Zbl 1200.53025)]. Such a family includes the Cheeger-Gromoll metric $h_{1,1}$ and the Sasaki metric $h_{0,0}$. The authors give a rigidity result of these metric, Theorem 1.1, that can be stated as: $(E, h_{p,q})$ has constant scalar curvature if and only if $E$ is locally the Riemannian product of $M$ and the fiber, and both $M$ and the fiber have constant scalar curvature. Then the authors extend the definition of generalized Cheeger-Gromoll metrics on the total space of transitive Euclidean Lie algebroids. Their second result is Theorem 1.3 (to be compared with a result in [\textit{S. Gudmundsson} and \textit{E. Kappos}, ibid. 25, No. 1, 75--83 (2002; Zbl 1019.53017)]), concerning the scalar curvature of $h_{1,1}$ on the transitive Lie algebroid canonically associated to a Riemannian manifold with constant sectional curvature.

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