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We define a class of metrics that extend the Sasaki metric of a tangent manifold of a Riemannian manifold. The new metrics are obtained by the transfer of the generalized (pseudo-)Riemannian metrics of the pullback of the big tangent bundle…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-17 Izu Vaisman

We study harmonic sections of a Riemannian vector bundle whose total space is equipped with a 2-parameter family of metrics which includes both the Sasaki and Cheeger-Gromoll metrics. This enables the theory of harmonic unit sections to be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. Benyounes , E. Loubeau , C. M. Wood

Let $(M,g)$ be a Riemannian manifold. When $M$ is compact and the tangent bundle $TM$ is equipped with the Sasaki metric $g^s$, the only vector fields which define harmonic maps from $(M,g)$ to $(TM,g^s)$, are the parallel ones. The Sasaki…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-22 M. T. K. Abbassi , G. Calvaruso , D. Perrone

We propose a new strong Riemannian metric on the manifold of (parametrized) embedded curves of regularity $H^s$, $s\in(3/2,2)$. We highlight its close relationship to the (generalized) tangent-point energies and employ it to show that this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Elias Döhrer , Philipp Reiter , Henrik Schumacher

In 1970, Samuel I. Goldberg and Kentaro Yano defined the notion of noninvariant hypersurface of a Sasakian manifold [1]. In this paper we have studied the properties of parallel vector fields with respect to induced connection on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-12 Sachin Kumar Srivastava , Alok Kumar Srivastava , Dhruwa Narain

We construct an example of a Riemannian metric on the 2-torus such that its universal cover does not admit global Riemann normal coordinates.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Vladimir S. Matveev

Let $(M,\langle,\rangle_{TM})$ be a Riemannian manifold. It is well-known that the Sasaki metric on $TM$ is very rigid but it has nice properties when restricted to $T^{(r)}M=\{u\in TM,|u|=r \}$. In this paper, we consider a general…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-15 Mohamed Boucetta , Hasna Essoufi

Two-dimensional almost-Riemannian structures are generalized Riemannian structures on surfaces for which a local orthonormal frame is given by a Lie bracket generating pair of vector fields that can become collinear. We study the relation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-25 Andrei Agrachev , Ugo Boscain , Grégoire Charlot , Roberta Ghezzi , Mario Sigalotti

The purpose of this paper is to investigate applications the covariant derivatives of the covector fields and killing vector fields with respect to the synectic lift a in a the Riemannian manifold to its tangent bundle, where Cg-complete…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-06 Melek Aras

Motivated by the possible characterization of Sasakian manifolds in terms of twistor forms, we give the complete classification of compact Riemannian manifolds carrying a Killing vector field whose covariant derivative (viewed as a 2-form)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Andrei Moroianu

The local geometry of a Riemannian symmetric space is described completely by the Riemannian metric and the Riemannian curvature tensor of the space. In the present article I describe how to compute these tensors for any Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-10-15 Sebastian Klein

Geodesics become an essential element of the geometry of a semi-Riemannian manifold. In fact, their differences and similarities with the (positive definite) Riemannian case, constitute the first step to understand semi-Riemannian Geometry.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-23 Anna Maria Candela , Miguel Sánchez

In this paper, we investigate some geodesics and $F$-geodesics problems on tangent bundle and on $\varphi$-unit tangent bundle $T^{\varphi}_{1}M$ equipped with the $\varphi$-Sasaki metric over para-K\"{a}hler-Norden manifold $(M^{2m},…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Abderrahim Zagane

Let M be an n-dimensional Riemannian manifold and TM its tangent bundle. The conformal and fiber preserving vector fields on TM have well-known physical interpretations and have been studied by physicists and geometricians. Here we define a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 B. Bidabad , S. Hedayatian

The space of all Riemannian metrics on a smooth second countable finite dimensional manifold is itself a smooth manifold modeled on the space of symmetric (0,2)-tensor fields with compact support. It carries a canonical Riemannian metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Olga Gil-Medrano , Peter W. Michor

In Finsler geometry the complete lift vector fields have distinguished geometric significance. For example a vector field on a Finsler manifold is said to be conformal if its complete lift is conformal in usual sense. In this work we define…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 B. Bidabad

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

We show Riemannian geometry could be studied by identifying the tangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold $\mathcal{M}$ with a subbundle of the trivial bundle $\mathcal{M} \times \mathcal{E}$, obtained by embedding $\mathcal{M}$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Du Nguyen

Let $(M,g)$ be a compact Riemannian manifold. Equipping its tangent bundle $TM$ (resp. unit tangent bundle $T_1M$) by a pseudo-Riemannian $g$-natural metric $G$ (resp. $\tilde{G}$), we study the biharmonicty of vector fields (resp. unit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-03 Mohamed Tahar Kadaoui Abbassi , Souhail Doua

In this paper, first, we introduce the Berger-type deformed Sasaki metric on the cotangent bundle $T^{\ast}M$ over a K\"{a}hlerian manifold $(M^{2m}, J, g)$ and investigate the Levi-Civita connection of this metric. Secondly, we present the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Abderrahim Zagane