scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2068307

Linear and affine connections (53B05) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25)

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A linear connection \(\overline\nabla\) on a Riemannian manifold \((M^n,g)\) is a quarter-symmetric connection if its torsion \(T\) is of the form \(T(X,Y)=\pi(Y)FX-\pi(X)FY\) where \(\pi\) is a 1-form and \(F\) is a tensor field of type (1,1). Let \(\eta\) be a contact form on a contact manifold \(M\) of dimension \(2m+1\), i.e. \(\eta\wedge (d\eta)^m\neq 0\). In particular \(\eta\) is not closed, a cautionary remark in regard to theorem 3 of the present paper. Let \(\xi\) denote the characteristic vector field (Reeb vector field) of \(\eta\). Given a contact form \(\eta\), a Riemannian metric \(g\) is an associated metric if \(\eta(X)=g(\xi,X)\) and there exists a tensor field \(\phi\) of type (1,1) satisfying \(d\eta(X,Y)=g(X,\phi Y)\) and \(\phi^2=-I+\eta\otimes\xi\). We refer to this as a contact metric structure. The contact metric structure is {Sasakian} if \((\nabla_X\phi)Y=g(X,Y)\xi-\eta(Y)X\) where \(\nabla\) is the Riemannian connection \(g\). The authors show that on a Sasakian manifold \(\overline\nabla_XY=\nabla_XY+\eta(Y)\phi X\) is the unique quarter-symmetric connection with \(\pi=\eta\) and \(F=\phi\) satisfying the non-metric condition \((\overline\nabla_Xg)(Y,Z)=-\eta(Y)g(\phi X,Z) -\eta(Z)g(\phi X,Y)\). The paper also discusses the vanishing of the Ricci tensor of the quarter-symmetric connection.

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