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Geometry of weak metric $f$-manifolds: a survey

Differential Geometry 2025-01-17 v2

Abstract

A weak ff-structure on a smooth manifold, introduced by the author and R. Wolak (2022), generalizes K. Yano's (1961) ff-structure. This generalization allows us to revisit classical theory and discover new applications related to Killing vector fields, totally geodesic foliations, Ricci-type solitons, and Einstein-type metrics. This article reviews the results on weak metric ff-manifolds, where the complex structure on the contact distribution of a metric ff-structure is replaced with a nonsingular skew-symmetric tensor, and explores its distinguished classes.

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@article{arxiv.2501.04048,
  title  = {Geometry of weak metric $f$-manifolds: a survey},
  author = {Vladimir Rovenski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.04048},
  year   = {2025}
}

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22 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2306.07102, arXiv:2412.14125