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In Riemannian geometry, Ricci soliton inequalities are an important field of study that provide profound insights into the geometric and analytic characteristics of Riemannian manifolds. An extensive study of Ricci soliton inequalities is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Bang-Yen Chen , Majid Ali Choudhary , Mohammed Nisar , Mohd Danish Siddiqi

We develop a general approach to study geometric flows on homogeneous spaces. Our main tool will be a dynamical system defined on the variety of Lie algebras called the bracket flow, which coincides with the original geometric flow after a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-11 Jorge Lauret

In the present paper, we give some characterizations by considering $*$-Ricci soliton as a Kenmotsu metric. We prove that if a Kenmotsu manifold represents an almost $*$-Ricci soliton with the potential vector field $V$ is a Jacobi along…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Dhriti Sundar Patra , Akram Ali , Fatemah Mofarreh

An explicit one-parameter Lie point symmetry of the four-dimensional vacuum Einstein equations with two commuting hypersurface-orthogonal Killing vector fields is presented. The parameter takes values over all of the real line and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-07 M. M. Akbar , M. A. H. MacCallum

We consider a class of inhomogeneous self-similar cosmological models in which the perfect fluid flow is tangential to the orbits of a three-parameter similarity group. We restrict the similarity group to possess both an Abelian $G_{2}$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Sepehr Rashidi , C. G. Hewitt , Benoit Charbonneau

In this paper we first analyze the structure of Maxwell equations in a Lorentzian spacetime where the potential A is proportional to 1-form K physically equivalent to a Killing vector field (supposed to exist). We show that such A obeys the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Waldyr A. Rodrigues

The Eisenhart problem of finding parallel tensors treated already in the framework of quasi-constant curvature manifolds in \cite{x:j} is reconsidered for the symmetric case and the result is interpreted in terms of Ricci solitons. If the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-25 Cornelia Livia Bejan , Mircea Crasmareanu

In this paper, we study the existence of torqued and anti-torqued vector fields on the hyperbolic ambient space $\mathbb{H}^n$. Although there are examples of proper torqued vector fields on open subsets of $\mathbb{H}^n$, we prove that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Muhittin Evren Aydin , Adela Mihai , Cihan Özgür

In the present work, using the recently introduced framework of local geometric deformations, special types of vector fields - so-called hidden Killing vector fields - are constructed, which solve the Killing equation not globally, but only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-15 Albert Huber

We introduce and study $H$-paracontact metric manifolds, that is, paracontact metric manifolds whose Reeb vector field $\xi$ is harmonic. We prove that they are characterized by the condition that $\xi$ is a Ricci eigenvector. We then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Giovanni Calvaruso , Domenico Perrone

We use a combinatorial approximation of the hyperbolic plane to investigate properties of hyperbolic geometry such as exponential growth of perimeter and area of disks, and the linear isoperimetric inequality. This calculations give a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-09 MurphyKate Montee

We describe three-dimensional Lorentzian homogeneous Ricci solitons, showing that all types (i.e. shrinking, expanding and steady) exist. Moreover, all non-trivial examples have non-diagonalizable Ricci operator with one only eigenvalue.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-09 M. Brozos-Vazquez , G. Calvaruso , E. Garcia-Rio , S. Gavino-Fernandez

Let H be the n-dimensional hyperbolic space of constant sectional curvature -1 and let G be the identity component of the isometry group of H. We find all the G-invariant pseudo-Riemannian metrics on the space OG_n of oriented geodesics of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marcos Salvai

There are described equations for a pair comprising a Riemannian metric and a Killing field on a surface that contain as special cases the Einstein Weyl equations (in the sense of D. Calderbank) and a real version of a special case of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Daniel J. F. Fox

We show that a complete gradient Ricci soliton $(M^n,\,g)$ with constant scalar curvature and a non-parallel closed conformal vector field is isometric to either the Euclidean space, or an Euclidean sphere, or negatively Einstein warped…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-28 J. F. Siva Filho , R. Sharma

Killing vector fields, which have their origins in Riemannian geometry, have recently garnered attention for their significance in understanding fluid flows on curved surfaces. Owing to the significance of behavior of fluid flows around the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Yuuki Shimizu

Lorantzian trans-Sasakian space form is a special type of space form in which the nature of even and odd dimensional space form both exist. Various curvature tensors with respect to Levi-Civita connection on the space form are derived in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Bidhan Mondal , Nirabhra Basu , Arindam Bhattacharyya

We investigate special Killing vector fields on 3-dimensional Riemannian manifolds of biwarped product-type. Starting from a diagonal metric on $\mathbb R^3$ determined by two nontrivial warping functions and a constant scaling factor, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Adara M. Blaga

We examine moduli spaces of locally homogeneous surfaces of Type~$\mathcal{B}$ with torsion where the symmetric Ricci tensor is non-degenerate. We also determine the space of affine Killing vector fields in this context.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-23 Peter B Gilkey

We study an even dimensional manifold with a pseudo-Riemannian metric with arbitrary signature and arbitrary dimensions. We consider the Ricci flat equations and present a procedure to construct solutions to some higher (even) dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Metin Gurses , Atalay Karasu