arXiv research

Study on almost contact pseudo-metric manifolds with geometric identities and conditions.

The paper studies contact pseudo-metric manifolds with a specific curvature condition.

The paper studies $η-$Ricci solitons on contact pseudo-metric manifolds and their properties.

The paper defines a new structure on tangent sphere bundles and characterizes their properties.

The paper studies contact topology submanifolds and their rigidity.

Given a manifold $M$ endowed with a contact 1-form $α$, a bi-invariant pseudo-metric $\varrho_α$ is introduced on $Cont(M,α)$, the compactly supported identity component of the group of all strict contactomorphisms of $(M,α)$. For $M$ open $\varrho_α$ is a metric.

Classifies slant surfaces in almost para-Hermitian manifolds.

Symplectic capacities of domains near balls are well-defined, but not for all $C^1$-close domains.

Defines compatibility between Jacobi structures and pseudo-Riemannian metrics on Jacobi algebroids.

Study on Kenmotsu pseudo-metric manifolds with curvature conditions and Ricci solitons.

The author aims to classify 3D $(κ,μ)$-manifolds, focusing on para-contact and almost para-cosymplectic cases.

In this article, we study an almost contact metric structure on a $G_2$-manifold constructed by Arikan, Cho and Salur in via the classification of almost contact metric structures given by Chinea and Gonzalez. In particular, we characterize when this almost contact metric structure is cosymplectic and narrow down the p…

The paper connects complex contact structures to specific types of almost contact 3-structures.

In this paper the notion of the intrinsic geometry of an almost contact metric manifold is introduced. Description of some classes of spaces with almost contact metric structures in terms of the intrinsic geometry is given. A new type of almost contact metric spaces, more precisely, Hermitian almost contact metric spac…

It is introduced a differentiable manifold with almost contact 3-structure which consists of an almost contact metric structure and two almost contact B-metric structures. The product of this manifold and a real line is an almost hypercomplex manifold with Hermitian-Norden metrics. It is proven that the introduced mani…

A Sasaki-like almost contact complex Riemannian manifold is defined as an almost contact complex Riemannian manifold which complex cone is a holomorphic complex Riemannian manifold. Explicit compact and non-compact examples are given. A canonical construction producing a Sasaki-like almost contact complex Riemannian ma…

Abstract proof of non-existence of certain types of almost contact metric structures.

The paper defines quasi-isometry for almost contact metric manifolds and explores its properties.

We give a characterization of a contact metric manifold as a special almost contact metric manifold and discuss an almost contact metric manifold which is {a} natural generalization of the contact metric manifolds introduced by Y. Tashiro.

Study harmonicity of normal almost contact structures on Riemannian manifolds.

Study k-almost Ricci solitons on contact metric manifolds.

Families of linear connections are constructed on almost contact manifolds with Norden metric. An analogous connection to the symmetric Yano connection is obtained on a normal almost contact manifold with Norden metric and closed structural 1-form. The curvature properties of this connection are studied on two basic cl…

The φ-sectional curvature of statistical structures on almost contact metric manifolds is always non-positive.

The paper defines $η$-normality for contact and paracontact manifolds and explores their properties.

Researchers extend Godbillon-Vey functional to almost contact manifolds, finding critical structures.

Study on harmonicity of maps between different types of almost contact metric manifolds.

We study harmonic almost contact structures in the context of contact metric manifolds, and an analysis is carried out when such a manifold fibres over an almost Hermitian manifold, as exemplified by the Boothby-Wang fibration. Two types of almost contact metric warped products are also studied, relating their harmonic…

Survey of recent results in weak almost contact structures.

In this paper, the notion of an almost contact Kählerian structure is introduced. The interior geometry of almost contact Kählerian spaces is investigated. On the zero-curvature distribution of an almost contact metric structure, as on the total space of a vector bundle, an almost contact Kählerian structure is obtaine…

Study new warped product metric in contact geometry.

Almost contact manifolds with B-metric are considered. A special linear connection is introduced, which preserves the almost contact B-metric structure on these manifolds. This connection is investigated on some classes of the considered manifolds.

Almost contact manifolds with B-metric are considered. Of special interest are the so-called vertical classes of the almost contact B-metric manifolds. Curvature properties of these manifolds are studied. An example of 5-dimensional manifolds is constructed and characterized.

This paper is devoted to the study of curvature and torsion of almost contact curves in trans-Sasakian 3-Manifolds. The conditions for the frenet curves to be almost contact curves in trans-Sasakian 3-manifolds have been obtained.

The paper explores conditions for manifolds to have specific geometric structures.

Simplified construction of contact triad connection for analysis.

In this paper, we introduce generalized almost para-contact manifolds and obtain normality conditions in terms of classical tensor fields. We show that such manifolds naturally carry certain Lie bialgebroid/quasi-Lie algebroid structures on them and we relate this new generalized manifolds with classical almost para-co…

We prove that every homotopy class of almost contact structures on a closed 5-dimensional manifold admits a contact structure.

Abstract: Study Hamiltonian systems on almost cosymplectic manifolds, extending contact Hamiltonian systems.

These notes are intended to be an introduction to the use of approximately holomorphic techniques in almost contact and contact geometry. We develop the setup of the approximately holomorphic geometry. Once done, we sketch the existence of the two main geometric decompositions available for an almost contact or contact…

We study 5-dimensional Riemannian manifolds that admit an almost contact metric structure. We classify these structures by their intrinsic torsion and review the literature in terms of this scheme. Moreover, we determine necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of metric connections with vectorial, totally…

We continue our study of contact structures on manifolds of dimension at least five using complex surgery theory. We show that in each dimension 2q+1 > 3 there are 'maximal' almost contact manifolds to which there is a Stein cobordism from any other (2q+1)-dimensional contact manifold. We show that the product M x S^2 …

The aim of this research is the study of Gray curvature identities, introduced by Alfred Gray in \cite{kn:Gra76} for the class of almost hermitian manifolds. As known till now, there is no equivalent for the class of almost contact manifolds. For this purpose we use the Boohby-Wang fibration and the warped manifolds co…

Study expands harmonic almost contact metric structures classification.

We study almost bi-paracontact structures on contact manifolds. We prove that if an almost bi-paracontact structure is defined on a contact manifold $(M,η)$, then under some natural assumptions of integrability, $M$ carries two transverse bi-Legendrian structures. Conversely, if two transverse bi-Legendrian structures …

Almost contact manifolds with B-metric are considered. There are studied three natural connections (i.e. linear connections preserving the structure tensors) determined by conditions for their torsions. These connections are investigated on a family of Lie groups considered as 5-dimensional almost contact B-metric mani…

The vector space of the tensors $\mathcal F$ of type (0,3) having the same symmetries as the covariant derivative of the fundamental form of an almost contact metric manifold is considered. A scheme of decomposition of $\mathcal F$ into orthogonal components which are invariant under the action of $U(n)\times 1$ is giv…

We consider a pair of smooth manifolds, which are the counterparts in the even-dimensional and odd-dimensional cases. They are separately an almost complex manifold with Norden metric and an almost contact manifolds with B-metric, respectively. They can be combined as the so-called almost contact complex Riemannian man…

The paper connects complex spacetimes to twistor spaces and finds an almost contact structure.