Ricci almost solitons with associated projective vector field

A Ricci almost soliton whose associated vector field is projective is shown to have vanishing Cotton tensor, divergence-free Bach tensor and Ricci tensor as conformal Killing. For the compact case, a sharp inequality is obtained in terms of scalar curvature.We show that every complete gradient Ricci soliton is isometric to the Riemannian product of a Euclidean space and an Einstein space. A complete K-contact Ricci almost soliton whose associated vector field is projective is compact Einstein and Sasakian.

Conformal $ \eta $-Ricci solitons within the framework of indefinite Kenmotsu manifolds

<abstract><p>The present paper is to deliberate the class of $ \epsilon $-Kenmotsu manifolds which admits conformal $ \eta $-Ricci soliton. Here, we study some special types of Ricci tensor in connection with the conformal $ \eta $-Ricci soliton of $ \epsilon $-Kenmotsu manifolds. Moving further, we investigate some curvature conditions admitting conformal $ \eta $-Ricci solitons on $ \epsilon $-Kenmotsu manifolds. Next, we consider gradient conformal $ \eta $-Ricci solitons and we present a characterization of the potential function. Finally, we develop an illustrative example for the existence of conformal $ \eta $-Ricci soliton on $ \epsilon $-Kenmotsu manifold.</p></abstract>

Mathematical modeling in the study of semisymmetric connections on three-dimensional Lie groups with the metric of the Ricci soliton

Semisymmetric connections were first discovered by E. Cartan and are a natural generalization of the Levi-Civita connection. The properties of the parallel transfer of such connections and the basic tensor fields were investigated by I. Agrikola, K. Yano and other mathematicians. In this paper, a mathematical model is constructed for studying semisymmetric connections on three-dimensional Lie groups with the metric of an invariant Ricci soliton. A classification of these connections on three-dimensional unimodular Lie groups with left-invariant Riemannian metric of the Ricci soliton is obtained. It is proved that in this case there are nontrivial invariant semisimetric connections. Previously, the authors carried out similar studies in the class of Einstein metrics.

Clairaut Riemannian maps whose total manifolds admit a Ricci soliton

In this paper, we study Clairaut Riemannian maps whose total manifolds admit a Ricci soliton and give a nontrivial example of such Clairaut Riemannian maps. First, we calculate Ricci tensors and scalar curvature of total manifolds of Clairaut Riemannian maps. Then we obtain necessary conditions for the fibers of such Clairaut Riemannian maps to be Einstein and almost Ricci solitons. We also obtain a necessary condition for vector field [Formula: see text] to be conformal, where [Formula: see text] is a geodesic curve on total manifold of Clairaut Riemannian map. Further, we show that if total manifolds of Clairaut Riemannian maps admit a Ricci soliton with the potential mean curvature vector field of [Formula: see text] then the total manifolds of Clairaut Riemannian maps also admit a gradient Ricci soliton and obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for such maps to be harmonic by solving Poisson equation.

η-*-Ricci Solitons and Almost co-Kähler Manifolds

The subject of the present paper is the investigation of a new type of solitons, called η-*-Ricci solitons in (k,μ)-almost co-Kähler manifold (briefly, ackm), which generalizes the notion of the η-Ricci soliton introduced by Cho and Kimura . First, the expression of the *-Ricci tensor on ackm is obtained. Additionally, we classify the η-*-Ricci solitons in (k,μ)-ackms. Next, we investigate (k,μ)-ackms admitting gradient η-*-Ricci solitons. Finally, we construct two examples to illustrate our results.

Contact-Complex Riemannian Submersions

A submersion from an almost contact Riemannian manifold to an almost Hermitian manifold, acting on the horizontal distribution by preserving both the metric and the structure, is, roughly speaking a contact-complex Riemannian submersion. This paper deals mainly with a contact-complex Riemannian submersion from an η-Ricci soliton; it studies when the base manifold is Einstein on one side and when the fibres are η-Einstein submanifolds on the other side. Some results concerning the potential are also obtained here.

Almost Cosymplectic $$(k,\mu )$$-metrics as $$\eta$$-Ricci Solitons

In this paper, we study $$\eta$$ η -Ricci solitons on almost cosymplectic $$(k,\mu )$$ ( k , μ ) -manifolds. As an application, it is proved that if an almost cosymplectic $$(k,\mu )$$ ( k , μ ) -metric with $$k<0$$ k < 0 represents a Ricci soliton, then the potential vector field of the Ricci soliton is a strict infinitesimal contact transformation, and the corresponding almost cosymplectic manifold is locally isometric to a Lie group whose local structure is determined completely by $$k<0$$ k < 0 . In addition, a concrete example is constructed to illustrate the above result.