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g-natural metrics on tangent bundles and Jacobi operators

Differential Geometry 2009-12-21 v2

Abstract

Let (M,g) be a Riemannian manifold and G a nondegenerate g-natural metric on its tangent bundle T M . In this paper we establish a relation between the Jacobi operators of (M,g) and that of (T M,G). In the case of a Riemannian surface (M,g), we compute explicitly the spectrum of some Jacobi operators of (TM,G) and give necessary and sufficient conditions for (T M,G) to be an Osserman manifold.

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@article{arxiv.0907.5266,
  title  = {g-natural metrics on tangent bundles and Jacobi operators},
  author = {S. Degla and L. Todjihounde},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.5266},
  year   = {2009}
}