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The classical theory of $G$-structures, which include almost-complex structures, explains the relationship between the curvature of compatible connections and integrability. This note is an effort to understand how the curvature of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Gabriella Clemente

We review the theory of quaternionic Kahler and hyperkahler structures. Then we consider the tangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold M with a metric connection D (with torsion) and with its well estabilished canonical complex structure.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-15 Rui Albuquerque

We classify locally homogeneous quasi-Sasakian manifolds in dimension five that admit a parallel spinor $\psi$ of algebraic type $F \cdot \psi = 0$ with respect to the unique connection $\nabla$ preserving the quasi-Sasakian structure and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Friedrich , Stefan Ivanov

In this paper we study a Riemanian metric on the tangent bundle $T(M)$ of a Riemannian manifold $M$ which generalizes the Cheeger Gromoll metric and a compatible almost complex structure which together with the metric confers to $T(M)$ a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marian Ioan Munteanu

This article studies the harmonicity of vector fields on Riemannian manifolds, viewed as maps into the tangent bundle equipped with a family of Riemannian metrics. Geometric and topological rigidity conditions are obtained, especially for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-17 M. Benyounes , E. Loubeau , L. Todjihounde

First, we show that a warped product of a line and a fiber manifold is weakly conformally flat and quasi Einstein if and only if the fiber is Einstein. Next, we characterize and classify contact (in particular, $K$-contact) Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-02 Ramesh Sharma

In this paper we study some properties of almost abelian solvmanifolds using minimal models associated to a fibration. In particular we state a necessary and sufficient condition to formality and a method for finding symplectic strucures of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-05 Maura Macrì

In this paper, we provide a correspondence between certain 5-dimensional complex spacetimes and 4-dimensional twistor spaces. The spacetimes are almost contact manifolds whose curvature tensor satisfies certain conditions. By using the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-27 M. Teruya

Tubular neighborhoods play an important role in differential topology. We have applied these constructions to geometry of almost Hermitian manifolds. At first, we consider deformations of tensor structures on a normal tubular neighborhood…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-24 Alexander A. Ermolitski

It is considered a differentiable manifold equipped with a pseudo-Riemannian metric and an almost contact 3-struc\-ture so that an almost contact metric structure and two almost contact B-metric structures are generated. There are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Mancho Manev

We study generalized almost contact structures on odd-dimensional manifolds. We introduce a notion of integrability and show that the class of these structures is closed under symmetries of the Courant-Dorfman bracket, including T-duality.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-11 Marco Aldi , Daniele Grandini

We study the relations between the projective and the almost conformally symplectic structures on a smooth even dimensional manifold. We describe these relations by a single almost conformally symplectic connection with totally trace--free…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Jan Gregorovič

A hypercomplex structure on a differentiable manifold consists of three integrable almost complex structures that satisfy quaternionic relations. If, in addition, there exists a metric on the manifold which is Hermitian with respect to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-13 Artour Tomberg

In this paper we describe the oriented Riemannian four-manifolds $M$ for which the Atiyah-Hitchin-Singer or Eells-Salamon almost complex structure on the twistor space ${\mathcal Z}$ of $M$ determines a harmonic map from ${\mathcal Z}$ into…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-22 Johann Davidov , Oleg Mushkarov

On 5-dimensional almost contact B-metric manifolds, the form of any K\"ahler-type tensor (i.e. a tensor satisfying the properties of the curvature tensor of the Levi-Civita connection in the special class of the parallel structures on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-06 Mancho Manev , Miroslava Ivanova

In this note, we survey our recent work concerning cohomologies of harmonic bundles on quasi-compact Kaehler manifolds.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-13 Juergen Jost , Yi-Hu Yang , Kang Zuo

In this paper, we study normal complex contact metric manifolds and we get some general results on them. Moreover, we obtained the general expression of the curvature tensor field for arbitrary vector fields. Furthermore, we show that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-21 Aysel Turgut Vanli , Inan Unal

Weak contact metric manifolds, i.e., the linear complex structure on the contact distribution is replaced by a nonsingular skew-symmetric tensor, defined by the author and R. Wolak, allowed a new look at the theory of contact manifolds. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Vladimir Rovenski

Biharmonic or polyharmonic curves and surfaces in 3-dimensional contact manifolds are investigated.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-19 Jun-ichi Inoguchi

In this paper the notion of quasi-isometry between two Riemannian manifolds has been introduced. This idea is also imposed to study quasi-isometry between two almost contact metric manifolds. Moving further, some curvature properties of two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Arindam Bhattacharyya , Dipen Ganguly , Paritosh Ghosh , Sumanjit Sarkar