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We introduce and study $H$-paracontact metric manifolds, that is, paracontact metric manifolds whose Reeb vector field $ξ$ is harmonic. We prove that they are characterized by the condition that $ξ$ is a Ricci eigenvector. We then investigate how harmonicity of the Reeb vector field $ξ$ of a paracontact metric manifold…

Starting from $g$-natural pseudo-Riemannian metrics of suitable signature on the unit tangent sphere bundle $T_1 M$ of a Riemannian manifold $(M,\langle,\rangle)$, we construct a family of paracontact metric structures. We prove that this class of paracontact metric structures is invariant under $\mathcal D$-homothetic…

Almost paracontact metric manifolds are the famous examples of almost para-CR manifolds. We find necessary and suffcient conditions for such manifolds to be para-CR. Next we examine these conditions in certain subclasses of almost paracontact metric manifolds. Especially, it is shown that the normal almost paracontact …

This paper is a continuation of our previous work, where eleven basic classes of almost paracontact metric manifolds with respect to the covariant derivative of the structure tensor field were obtained. First we decompose one of the eleven classes into two classes and the basic classes of the considered manifolds becom…

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

We study a remarkable class of paracontact metric manifolds which have no contact metric counterpart: the paracontact metric $(-1,\widetildeμ)$-spaces which are not paraSasakian (i.e. have $\widetilde h\neq0$). We present explicit examples with $\widetilde h$ of every possible constant rank and some with non-constant r…

We study paracontact metric $(κ,μ)$-spaces with $κ=-1$, equivalent to $h^2=0$ but not $h=0$. In particular, we will give an alternative proof of Theorem 3.2 of [11] and present examples of paracontact metric $(-1,2)$-spaces and $(-1,0)$-spaces of arbitrary dimension with tensor $h$ of every possible constant rank. We w…

We completely describe paracontact metric three-manifolds whose Reeb vector field satisfies the Ricci soliton equation. While contact Riemannian (or Lorentz\-ian) Ricci solitons are necessarily trivial, that is, $K$-contact and Einstein, the paracontact metric case allows nontrivial examples. Both homogeneous and inhom…

The notion of generalized almost paracontact structure on the generalized tangent bundle $TM\oplus T^*M$ is introduced and its properties are investigated. The case when the manifold $M$ carries an almost paracontact metric structure is also discussed. Conditions for its transformed under a $β$- or a $B$-field transfor…

The object of this paper is to study $η$-Ricci solitons on $(\varepsilon)$-almost paracontact metric manifolds. We investigate $η$-Ricci solitons in the case when its potential vector field is exactly the characteristic vector field $ξ$ of the $(\varepsilon)$-almost paracontact metric manifold and when the potential ve…

The study explores δ-almost gradient Yamabe solitons on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds.

The paper classifies 3D paracontact and almost paracosymplectic spaces.

This paper is a study of three-dimensional paracontact metric (\k{appa},μ,ν)-manifolds. Three dimensional paracontact metric manifolds whose Reeb vector field ξ is harmonic are characterized. We focus on some curvature properties by considering the class of paracontact metric (\k{appa},μ,ν)-manifolds under a condition …

We study a class of 3-dimensional paracontact metric manifolds and we revise some of the results obtain in \cite{SS}.

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 …

Study on a specific type of Riemannian manifolds constructed from 2D space-forms.

In this paper we consider a manifold $(M,\nabla )$ with a symmetric linear connection $\nabla$ which induces on the cotangent bundle $T^*M$ of $M$ a semi-Riemannian metric $\overline g$ with a neutral signature. The metric $\overline g$ is called natural Riemann extension and it is a generalization (made by M. Sekizaw…

The paper constructs and classifies 3D Walker manifolds with specific structures.

We give a local classification of generalized (kappa,mu)-Paracontact Metric Manifold which satisfies the condition xi(mu)=0. An example of such manifolds is presented.

In this paper, we define almost paracontact and normal almost paracontact Finsler structures on a vector bundle and find some conditions for integrability of these structures. We define paracontact metric, para- Sasakian and K-paracontact Finsler structures and study some properties of these structures. For a K-paracon…

The purpose of this paper is to classify paracontact metric $3$-manifolds $M^3$ such that the Ricci operator $S$ commutes with the endomorhism $φ$ of its tangent bundle $Γ(TM^3)$.

An example of a three dimensional flat paracontact metric manifold with respect to Levi-Civita connection is constructed. It is shown that no such manifold exists for odd dimensions greater than or equal to five.

We study non-paraSasakian paracontact metric $(κ,μ)$-spaces with $κ=-1$ (equivalent to $h^2=0$ but $h\neq0$). These manifolds, which do not have a contact geometry counterpart, will be classified locally in terms of the rank of $h$. We will also give explicit examples of every possible constant rank of $h$.

We prove that any contact metric $(κ,μ)$-space $(M,ξ,φ,η,g)$ admits a canonical paracontact metric structure which is compatible with the contact form $η$. We study such canonical paracontact structure, proving that it verifies a nullity condition and induces on the underlying contact manifold $(M,η)$ a sequence of com…

The presented paper is devoted to study the curvature and torsion of slant Frenet curves in 3-dimensional normal almost paracontact metric manifolds. Moreover, in this class of manifolds, properties of non- Frenet slant curves (with null tangents or null normals) are obtained. The achieved results are illustrated by ex…

Almost paracontact manifolds of an odd dimension having an almost paracomplex structure on the paracontact distribution are studied. The components of the fundamental (0,3)-tensor, derived by the covariant derivative of the structure endomorphism and the metric on the considered manifolds in each of the basic classes, …

New connections defined for a specific geometric structure.

The paper classifies geometric structures of δ-almost Yamabe solitons on paracontact metric manifolds.

We study real affine hypersurfaces $f\colon M\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{2n+2}$ with an almost paracontact structure $(\varphi ,ξ,η)$ induced by a $\widetilde{J}$-tangent transversal vector filed, where $\widetilde{J}$ is the canonical paracomplex structure on $\mathbb{R}^{2n+2}$. We give a classification of hypersurfaces …

The paper is a complete study of paracontact metric manifolds for which the Reeb vector field of the underlying contact structure satisfies a nullity condition (the condition \eqref{paranullity} below, for some real numbers $$ and $\tildeμ$). This class of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds, which includes para-Sasak…

We show that a $3-$dimensional paracontact manifold on which $Q\varphi =\varphi Q$ is either a manifold with $trh^2=0$, flat or of constant $ξ-$sectional curvature $k\neq-1$ and constant $\varphi$-sectional curvature $-k\neq 1$.

In monograph of D. E. Blair "Riemannian geometry of contact and symplectic manifolds" and in the paper of S. Zamkovoy "Canonical connections on paracontact manifolds", the curvature identities respectively for contact and paracontact metric manifold are proved. We obtain the curvature identity in the wider class of man…

We study the interplays between paracontact geometry and the theory of bi-Legendrian manifolds. We interpret the bi-Legendrian connection of a bi-Legendrian manifold M as the paracontact connection of a canonical paracontact structure induced on M and then we discuss many consequences of this result both for bi-Legendr…

New Einstein metrics found from para-Sasaki-like Riemannian manifolds.

We study the Schouten-van Kampen connection associated to an almost contact or paracontact metric structure. With the help of such a connection, some classes of almost (para) contact metric manifolds are characterized. Certain curvature properties of this connection are found.

The canonical paracontact connection is defined and it is shown that its torsion is the obstruction the paracontact manifold to be paraSasakian. A $\mathcal{D}$-homothetic transformation is determined as a special gauge transformation. The $η$-Einstein manifold are defined, it is prove that their scalar curvature is a …

The goal of this paper, using lifting theory it is to produce almost paracomplex struc- tures on the tangent bundle of almost Lorentzian r-paracontact manifold endowed with almost Lorentzian r-paracontact structure. Finally, we discuss the effect over dynamics systems of the produced geometrical structures.

In this paper eleven basic classes of almost paracontact manifolds are introduced and some examples are constructed.

A curvature-type tensor invariant called para contact (pc) conformal curvature is defined on a paracontact manifold. It is shown that a paracontact manifold is locally paracontact conformal to the hyperbolic Heisenberg group or to a hyperquadric of neutral signature if and only if the pc conformal curvature vanishes. I…

In this paper we define and study the slant and semi-slant submanifolds of a Lorentzian almost paracontact manifold. Some necessary and sufficient conditions for a submanifold of a Lorentzian almost paracontact manifold to be slant are obtained. We give some examples for the slant and semi-slant submanifolds of a Loren…

We construct a metrical framed structure on the tensor bundle of a Riemannian manifold equipped with a Cheeger-Gromoll type metric and by restricting this structure to the tensor sphere bundle, we obtain an almost metrical paracontact structure on the tensor sphere bundle. Moreover, we show that the tensor sphere bundl…

Study connects Lie groups to specific Riemannian manifolds.

The purpose of the paper is to study Yamabe solitons on three-dimensional para-Sasakian, paracosymplectic and para-Kenmotsu manifolds. Mainly, we proved that *If the semi-Riemannian metric of a three-dimensional para-Sasakian manifold is a Yamabe soliton, then it is of constant scalar curvature, and the flow vector fie…

Study on hyperspheres in 4-spaces as special Riemannian manifolds.

In this paper we study a special type of metric called *-Ricci soliton on para-Sasakian manifold. We prove that if the para-Sasakian metric is a *-Ricci soliton on a manifold M, then M is either D-homothetic to an Einstein manifold, or the Ricci tensor of M with respect to the canonical paracontact connection vanishes.

The study classifies h-almost Ricci-Yamabe solitons in various paracontact manifolds.

In this study, taking into considering lifting theory, we shall obtain both almost complex and paracomplex structures on the tangent bun- dle, based on almost Lorentzian r-contact and r-paracontact manifold.

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 hypersurface of an (1,1,1) almost contact manifold admits an almost product structure. We in…