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Let (M, θ ) be a pseudo-Hermitian space of real dimension 2n + 1, that is M is a CR-manifold of dimension 2n + 1 and θ is a contact form on M giving the Levi distribution HT (M) ⊂ T M. Let M θ ⊂ T * M be the canonical symplectization of... more
Let (M, θ ) be a pseudo-Hermitian space of real dimension 2n + 1, that is M is a CR-manifold of dimension 2n + 1 and θ is a contact form on M giving the Levi distribution HT (M) ⊂ T M. Let M θ ⊂ T * M be the canonical symplectization of... more
In this study, the classes of several almost paracontact metric structures on 5 dimensional nilpotent Lie algebras are determined. It is also shown that there are no η-Einstein structures on 5 dimensional nilpotent Lie algebras. In this... more
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We prove rigidity and vanishing theorems for several holomorphic Euler characteristics on complex contact manifolds admitting holomorphic circle actions preserving the contact structure. Such vanishings are reminiscent of those of LeBrun... more
The aim of this research is the study of Gray curvature identities, introduced by Alfred Gray in [7] for the class of almost hermitian manifolds. As known till now, there is no equivalent for the class of almost contact manifolds. For... more
A flow defined by a nonsingular smooth vector field X on a closed manifold M is said to be parameter rigid if given any real valued smooth function f on M , there are a smooth funcion g and a constant c such that f = X(g)+c holds. We show... more
We prove that for closed 2-calibrated manifolds there always exist Lefschetz pencil structures. This generalizes similar results for symplectic and contact manifolds. To cite this article: A.
We show that there is no positive loop inside the component of a fiber in the space of Legendrian embeddings in the contact manifold ST * M , provided that the universal cover of M is R n. We consider some related results in the space of... more
In this paper we study the following type of functions f : Q R3 → R 3 , where Q R3 is the quadratic cone of the algebra R 3. From the fact that it is possible to write the algebra R 3 as a direct sum of quaternions, we get the observation... more
We show that the CR structure on the twistor space of a quaternionic contact structure described by O. Biquard is normal if and only if the Ricci curvature of the Biquard connection commutes with the endomorphisms in the quaternionic... more
We give simple characterizations of contact 1-forms in terms of Dirac structures. We also relate normal almost contact structures to the theory of Dirac structures.
On an almost quaternionic manifold (M 4n , Q) we study the integrability of almost complex structures which are compatible with the almost quaternionic structure Q. If n ≥ 2, we prove that the existence of two compatible complex... more
We develop the twistor theory of G-structures for which the (linear) Lie algebra of the structure group contains an involution, instead of a c omplex structure. The twistor space Z of such a G-structure is endowed with a field of... more
We study almost Hermitian submanifolds of a quaternionic Kähler manifold (M4n, Q, g). We investigate when such submanifold is Hermitian, almost Kähler and Kähler. Some characterizations of Kähler submanifolds are given. In the second part... more
It is a report on some recent results concerning the almost complex submanifolds of a quaternionic, in particular quaternionic Kähler, manifold. Some extensions of these results to submanifolds of a quaternionic Kähler manifold with... more
It is a report on some recent results concerning the almost com-plex submanifolds of a quaternionic, in particular quaternionic Kähler, mani-fold. Some extensions of these results to submanifolds of a quaternionic Kähler manifold with... more
On an almost quaternionic manifold (M 4n , Q) we study the integrability of almost complex structures which are compatible with the almost quaternionic structure Q. If n ≥ 2, we prove that the existence of two compatible complex... more
The non totally geodesic parallel 2n-dimensional Kähler submanifolds of the ndimensional quaternionic projective space were classified by K. Tsukada. Here we give the complete classification of non totally geodesic immersions of parallel... more
A class of minimal almost complex submanifolds of a Riemannian manifold M 4n with a parallel quaternionic structure Q, in particular of a 4-dimensional oriented Riemannian manifold, is studied. A notion of Kähler submanifold is defined.... more
We show that the CR structure on the twistor space of a quaternionic contact structure described by O. Biquard is normal if and only if the Ricci curvature of the Biquard connection commutes with the endomorphisms in the quaternionic... more
The twistor method is applied for obtaining examples of generalized Kähler structures which are not yielded by Kähler structures.
We study the Einstein condition for a natural family of Riemannian metrics on the twistor space of partially complex structures of a fixed rank on the tangent spaces of a Riemannian manifold compatible with its metric. A generalization of... more
As a generalization of anti-invariant ξ ⊥ −Riemannian submersions, we introduce conformal anti-invariant ξ ⊥ −submersions from almost contact metric manifolds onto Riemannian manifolds. We investigate the geometry of foliations which are... more
As a generalization of anti-invariant $\xi^\perp-$Riemannian submersions, we introduce conformal anti-invariant $\xi^\perp-$submersions from almost contact metric manifolds onto Riemannian manifolds. We investigate the geometry of... more
We consider a skew symetric conformal vector fleld on a closed concircu- lar almost contact manifold M and flnd its properties. Also, for a CR-product submanifold M0 of M, the mean curvature vector fleld of the invariant subman- ifold and... more
This paper contains a characterization of Reeb vector fields of K-contact forms in terms of J-holomorphic embeddings into the tangent unit sphere bundle. A consequence of this characterization is that these vector fields are critical... more
The object of the paper is to study some properties of the generalized Einstein tensor GX,Y which is recurrent and birecurrent on pseudo-Ricci symmetric manifolds PRSn. Considering the generalized Einstein tensor GX,Y as birecurrent but... more
Walczak formula is a very nice tool for understanding the geometry of a Riemannian manifold equipped with two orthogonal complementary distributions. Svensson [14] has shown that this formula simplifies to a Bochner type formula when we... more
Walczak formula is a very nice tool for understanding the geometry of a Riemannian manifold equipped with two orthogonal complementary distributions. Svensson [7] has shown that this formula simplifies to a Bochner type formula when we... more
BULLETIN of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society http://math.usm.my/bulletin ... A Note on ξ-Conformally Flat Contact Manifolds ... UC De and Sudipta Biswas Department of Mathematics, University of Kalyani, Kalyani – 741235, West... more
We construct left invariant quaternionic contact (qc) structures on Lie groups with zero and non-zero torsion and with non-vanishing quaternionic contact conformal curvature tensor, thus showing the existence of non-flat quaternionic... more
The geodesic flow of a Riemannian metric on a compact manifold Q is said to be toric integrable if it is completely integrable and the first integrals of motion generate a homogeneous torus action on the punctured cotangent bundle T * Q \... more
We show that there is no positive loop inside the component of a fiber in the space of Legendrian embeddings in the contact manifold ST * M , provided that the universal cover of M is R n. We consider some related results in the space of... more
In this paper we study submanifolds of almost contact manifolds with Norden metric of codimension two with totally real normal spaces. Examples of such submanifolds as a Lie subgroups are constructed.
In this paper, we study the nature of Lorentzianα-Sasakian manifolds admitting M-projective curvature tensor. We show that M-projectively flat and irrotational M-projective curvature tensor of Lorentzian α-Sasakian manifolds are locally... more
We study the conformal curvature tensor and the contact conformal curvature tensor in Sasakian and/or K-contact manifolds. We find a necessary and sufficient condition for a Sasakian manifold to be ϕ-conformally flat. We also find some... more
We provide new insights into the contact Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formulations of dissipative mechanical systems. In particular, we state a new form of the contact dynamical equations, and we review two recently presented Lagrangian... more
From the existence of parallel spinor fields on Calabi-Yau, hyper-Kähler or complex flat manifolds, we deduce the existence of harmonic differential forms of different degrees on their minimal Lagrangian submanifolds. In particular, when... more
summary:The object of the present paper is to study $\xi $-projectively flat and $\phi $-projectively flat 3-dimensional connected trans-Sasakian manifolds. Also we study the geometric properties of connected trans-Sasakian manifolds when... more
Alfred Gray introduced in [8] three curvature identities for the class of almost Hermitian manifolds. Using the warped product construction and the Boothby-Wang fibration we will give an equivalent of these identities for the class of... more
We give simple characterizations of contact 1-forms in terms of Dirac structures. We also relate normal almost contact structures to the theory of Dirac structures.
Let (Σ, α) be a star-shaped hypersurface in R2n, together with its standard contact form α which is the restriction of the global 1-form λ := 2 ∑n j=1(xdy − yjdxj). The Reeb vector field Rα corresponding to α is the unique vector field... more
Let M be a locally eonformal lCahler manifold. Then the l(ghler ]orm Y2 of _f/I satisfies df2 = o~Af2 for some closed 1.form w, called the I~ee form of 1VII. We show that M admits three canonical foliations (/our if co is parallel) and we... more
We construct explicit left invariant quaternionic contact structures on Lie groups with zero and non-zero torsion, and with non-vanishing quaternionic contact conformal curvature tensor, thus showing the existence of quaternionic contact... more
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We answer in the affirmative a question posed by Ivanov and Vassilev on the existence of a seven-dimensional quaternionic contact manifold with closed fundamental 4-form and non-vanishing torsion endomorphism. Moreover, we show an... more
In this paper we study the invariant and noninvariant hypersurfaces of $(1,1,1)$ almost contact manifolds, Lorentzian almost paracontact manifolds and Lorentzian para-Sasakian manifolds, respectively. We show that a noninvariant... more