A Variational Characterization of Contact Metric Manifolds With Vanishing Torsion

1992 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. E. Blair ◽  
D. Perrone
Keyword(s):  
Scalar Curvature ◽  
Critical Point ◽  
Integral Functional ◽  
Riemannian Metrics ◽  
Contact Manifold ◽  
Contact Condition ◽  
Contact Metric Manifolds ◽  
Point Condition ◽  
Webster Scalar Curvature ◽  
Group Of Isometries

AbstractChern and Hamilton considered the integral of the Webster scalar curvature as a functional on the set of CR-structures on a compact 3-dimensional contact manifold. Critical points of this functional can be viewed as Riemannian metrics associated to the contact structure for which the characteristic vector field generates a 1-parameter group of isometries i.e. K-contact metrics. Tanno defined a higher dimensional generalization of the Webster scalar curvature, computed the critical point condition of the corresponding integral functional and found that it is not the K-contact condition. In this paper two other generalizations are given and the critical point conditions of the corresponding integral functionals are found. For the second of these, this is the K-contact condition, suggesting that it may be the proper generalization of the Webster scalar curvature.

scholarly journals Critical associated metrics on contact manifolds. II

1986 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 404-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. E. Blair ◽  
A. J. Ledger
Keyword(s):  
Scalar Curvature ◽  
Critical Points ◽  
Compact Manifold ◽  
Einstein Metrics ◽  
Contact Structure ◽  
Riemannian Metrics ◽  
Contact Manifold ◽  
Contact Manifolds ◽  
Contact Metric Structure ◽  
Sasakian Metrics

AbstractThe study of the integral of the scalar curvature, ∫MRdVg, as a function on the set of all Riemannian metrics of the same total volume on a compact manifold is now classical, and the critical points are the Einstein metrics. On a compact contact manifold we consider this and ∫M (R − R* − 4n2) dv, with R* the *-scalar curvature, as functions on the set of metrics associated to the contact structure. For these integrals the critical point conditions then become certain commutativity conditions on the Ricci operator and the fundamental collineation of the contact metric structure. In particular, Sasakian metrics, when they exist, are maxima for the second function.

Yamabe solitons on 3-dimensional contact metric manifolds with Qφ = φQ

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (03) ◽  
pp. 1950039 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Venkatesha ◽  
Devaraja Mallesha Naik
Keyword(s):  
Vector Field ◽  
Scalar Curvature ◽  
Constant Scalar Curvature ◽  
Sasakian Manifold ◽  
Contact Metric Manifold ◽  
Reeb Vector Field ◽  
3 Dimensional ◽  
Flow Vector ◽  
Contact Metric Manifolds ◽  
Yamabe Soliton

If [Formula: see text] is a 3-dimensional contact metric manifold such that [Formula: see text] which admits a Yamabe soliton [Formula: see text] with the flow vector field [Formula: see text] pointwise collinear with the Reeb vector field [Formula: see text], then we show that the scalar curvature is constant and the manifold is Sasakian. Moreover, we prove that if [Formula: see text] is endowed with a Yamabe soliton [Formula: see text], then either [Formula: see text] is flat or it has constant scalar curvature and the flow vector field [Formula: see text] is Killing. Furthermore, we show that if [Formula: see text] is non-flat, then either [Formula: see text] is a Sasakian manifold of constant curvature [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text] is an infinitesimal automorphism of the contact metric structure on [Formula: see text].

Callias-type operators in C∗-algebras and positive scalar curvature on noncompact manifolds

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (04) ◽  
pp. 897-939 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Cecchini
Keyword(s):  
Scalar Curvature ◽  
Riemannian Metrics ◽  
Index Theorem ◽  
Complete Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Positive Scalar Curvature ◽  
Type Operator ◽  
Spin Manifold ◽  
Compact Set ◽  
Positive Scalar ◽  
C Algebras

A Dirac-type operator on a complete Riemannian manifold is of Callias-type if its square is a Schrödinger-type operator with a potential uniformly positive outside of a compact set. We develop the theory of Callias-type operators twisted with Hilbert [Formula: see text]-module bundles and prove an index theorem for such operators. As an application, we derive an obstruction to the existence of complete Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature on noncompact spin manifolds in terms of closed submanifolds of codimension one. In particular, when [Formula: see text] is a closed spin manifold, we show that if the cylinder [Formula: see text] carries a complete metric of positive scalar curvature, then the (complex) Rosenberg index on [Formula: see text] must vanish.

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