scholarly journals Geodesic Vector Fields on a Riemannian Manifold

Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharief Deshmukh ◽  
Patrik Peska ◽  
Nasser Bin Turki

A unit geodesic vector field on a Riemannian manifold is a vector field whose integral curves are geodesics, or in other worlds have zero acceleration. A geodesic vector field on a Riemannian manifold is a smooth vector field with acceleration of each of its integral curves is proportional to velocity. In this paper, we show that the presence of a geodesic vector field on a Riemannian manifold influences its geometry. We find characterizations of n-spheres as well as Euclidean spaces using geodesic vector fields.

Author(s):  
Emanuele Paolini ◽  
Eugene Stepanov

The scope of the paper is twofold. We show that for a large class of measurable vector fields in the sense of Weaver (i.e. derivations over the algebra of Lipschitz functions), called in the paper laminated, the notion of integral curves may be naturally defined and characterized (when appropriate) by an ordinary differential equation. We further show that for such vector fields the notion of a flow of the given positive Borel measure similar to the classical one generated by a smooth vector field (in a space with smooth structure) may be defined in a reasonable way, so that the measure ‘flows along’ the appropriately understood integral curves of the given vector field and the classical continuity equation is satisfied in the weak sense.


2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (06) ◽  
pp. 2050120
Author(s):  
Debabrata Chakraborty ◽  
Shyamal Kumar Hui ◽  
Yadab Chandra Mandal

The evolution of some geometric quantities on a compact Riemannian manifold [Formula: see text] whose metric is Yamabe soliton is discussed. Using these quantities, lower bound on the soliton constant is obtained. We discuss about commutator of soliton vector fields. Also, the condition of soliton vector field to be a geodesic vector field is obtained.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Alexander G. Ramm

<p>A simple proof is given for the explicit formula which allows one to recover a \(C^2\) – smooth vector field \(A=A(x)\) in \(\mathbb{R}^3\), decaying at infinity, from the knowledge of its \(\nabla \times A\) and \(\nabla \cdot A\). The representation of \(A\) as a sum of the gradient field and a divergence-free vector fields is derived from this formula. Similar results are obtained for a vector field in a bounded \(C^2\) - smooth domain.</p>


Filomat ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 835-842
Author(s):  
Bang-Yen Chen ◽  
Sharief Deshmukh

In this article, we show that the presence of a concircular vector field on a Riemannian manifold can be used to obtain rigidity results for Riemannian and Kaehler manifolds. More precisely, we find new geometrical characterizations of spheres, Euclidean spaces as well as of complex Euclidean spaces using non-trivial concircular vector fields.


2021 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Fethi Latti ◽  
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Hichem Elhendi ◽  
Lakehal Belarbi

In the present paper, we introduce a new class of natural metrics on the tangent bundle $TM$ of the Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ denoted by $G^{f,h}$ which is named a twisted Sasakian metric. A necessary and sufficient conditions under which a vector field is harmonic with respect to the twisted Sasakian metric are established. Some examples of harmonic vector fields are presented as well.


Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1663
Author(s):  
Sharief Deshmukh ◽  
Josef Mikeš ◽  
Nasser Bin Turki ◽  
Gabriel-Eduard Vîlcu

The concircularity property of vector fields implies the geodesicity property, while the converse of this statement is not true. The main objective of this note is to find conditions under which the concircularity and geodesicity properties of vector fields are equivalent. Moreover, it is shown that the geodesicity property of vector fields is also useful in characterizing not only spheres, but also Euclidean spaces.


2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ju Tan ◽  
Shaoqiang Deng

AbstractIn this paper, we consider a special class of solvable Lie groups such that for any x, y in their Lie algebras, [x, y] is a linear combination of x and y. We investigate the harmonicity properties of invariant vector fields of this kind of Lorentzian Lie groups. It is shown that any invariant unit time-like vector field is spatially harmonic. Moreover, we determine all vector fields which are critical points of the energy functional restricted to the space of smooth vector fields.


2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (07) ◽  
pp. 1450090 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago de Carvalho ◽  
Durval José Tonon

In this paper, we are dealing with piecewise smooth vector fields in a 2D-manifold. In such a scenario, the main goal of this paper is to exhibit the homeomorphism that gives the topological equivalence between a codimension one piecewise smooth vector field and the respective C0-normal form.


2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (11) ◽  
pp. 1450104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bang-Yen Chen ◽  
Sharief Deshmukh

A Ricci soliton (M, g, v, λ) on a Riemannian manifold (M, g) is said to have concurrent potential field if its potential field v is a concurrent vector field. Ricci solitons arisen from concurrent vector fields on Riemannian manifolds were studied recently in [Ricci solitons and concurrent vector fields, preprint (2014), arXiv:1407.2790]. The most important concurrent vector field is the position vector field on Euclidean submanifolds. In this paper we completely classify Ricci solitons on Euclidean hypersurfaces arisen from the position vector field of the hypersurfaces.


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