Geometric connections and geometric Dirac operators on contact manifolds

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2005.03.008MaRDI QIDQ558087zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Liviu I. Nicolaescu

Publication date 30 June 2005

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0101155

zbMATH Keywords

CR manifoldscontact manifoldsDirac operatorsalmost Hermitian manifoldsmetric connections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear and affine connections (53B05) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Almost contact and almost symplectic manifolds (53D15) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

Abstract: We construct several natural connections and Dirac type operators on a general metric contact manifold which are more sensitive to the geometric background. In the special case of CR manifolds these connections are also compatible with the CR structure and include among them the Webster connection. We also describe several Weitzenbock type formulae. Our method is based on work of P. Gauduchon applied to two almost complex manifolds naturally associated to a given metric contact manifold.

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