A metric is formal if all products of harmonic forms are again harmonic [\textit{D. Sullivan}, ``Infinitesimal computations in topology, Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 47, 269--331 (1977; Zbl 0374.57002)]. A closed manifold is called geometrically formal if it admits a formal Riemannian metric [\textit{D. Kotschick}, ``On products of harmonic forms, Duke Math. J. 107, No. 3, 521--531 (2001; Zbl 1036.53030)]. The authors study geometrically formal warped products and show that a warped product metric on a compact manifold is formal if and only if the warping function is constant. They also derive some topological obstructions to the existence of formal metrics. The authors also study compact Vaisman manifolds, whose universal cover is a special type of warped product, i.e. a Riemannian cone, and they determine the necessary and sufficient conditions for a Vaisman metric to be geometrically formal. They include several computational facts and their proofs in the Appendix.
- Locally conformally symplectic and Kähler geometry
- On products of harmonic forms.
- Bounds on sectional curvature and interactions with topology
- Geometrically formal homogeneous metrics of positive curvature
- On Products of Harmonic Polynomials
- Positive curvature, symmetry, and topology
- On the cohomology algebra of some classes of geometrically formal manifolds
- On product and golden stuctures and harmonicity
- Formality and the Lefschetz property in symplectic and cosymplectic geometry
- Bott-Chern cohomology of compact Vaisman manifolds
- Transverse geometric formality
- Locally conformal symplectic nilmanifolds with no locally conformal Kähler metrics
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