Nearly Sasakian geometry and SU(2)-structures

DOI10.1007/S10231-015-0496-9MaRDI QIDQ292649zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Beniamino Cappelletti Montano, Giulia Dileo

Publication date 8 June 2016

Published in Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.0942

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathrm{SU}(2)\)-structurecontact manifoldnearly cosymplecticnearly Kählernearly SasakianSasaki-Einstein

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25)

Abstract: We carry on a systematic study of nearly Sasakian manifolds. We prove that any nearly Sasakian manifold admits two types of integrable distributions with totally geodesic leaves which are, respectively, Sasakian or $5$-dimensional nearly Sasakian manifolds. As a consequence, any nearly Sasakian manifold is a contact manifold. Focusing on the $5$-dimensional case, we prove that there exists a one-to-one correspondence between nearly Sasakian structures and a special class of nearly hypo $SU(2)$-structures. By deforming such a $SU(2)$-structure one obtains in fact a Sasaki-Einstein structure. Further we prove that both nearly Sasakian and Sasaki-Einstein $5$-manifolds are endowed with supplementary nearly cosymplectic structures. We show that there is a one-to-one correspondence between nearly cosymplectic structures and a special class of hypo $SU(2)$-structures which is again strictly related to Sasaki-Einstein structures. Furthermore, we study the orientable hypersurfaces of a nearly K"{a}hler 6-manifold and, in the last part of the paper, we define canonical connections for nearly Sasakian manifolds, which play a role similar to the Gray connection in the context of nearly K"{a}hler geometry. In dimension $5$ we determine a connection which parallelizes all the nearly Sasakian $SU(2)$-structure as well as the torsion tensor field. An analogous result holds also for Sasaki-Einstein structures.

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