Concircularity on GRW-space-times and conformally flat spaces

There are two smooth functions [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] associated to a nontrivial concircular vector field [Formula: see text] on a connected Riemannian manifold [Formula: see text], called potential function and connecting function. In this paper, we show that presence of a timelike nontrivial concircular vector field influences the geometry of generalized Robertson–Walker space-times. We use a timelike concircular vector field [Formula: see text] on an [Formula: see text] -dimensional connected conformally flat Lorentzian manifold, [Formula: see text], to find a characterization of generalized Robertson–Walker space-time with fibers Einstein manifolds. It is interesting to note that for [Formula: see text] the concircular vector field annihilates energy-momentum tensor and also that in this case the potential function [Formula: see text] is harmonic. In the second part of this paper, we show that presence of a nontrivial concircular vector field [Formula: see text] with connecting function [Formula: see text] on a complete and connected [Formula: see text] -dimensional conformally flat Riemannian manifold [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], with Ricci curvature [Formula: see text] non-negative, satisfying [Formula: see text], is necessary and sufficient for [Formula: see text] to be isometric to either a sphere [Formula: see text] or to the Euclidean space [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is the scalar curvature.

$L^{p}$ harmonic 1-forms on conformally flat Riemannian manifolds

In this paper, we establish a finiteness theorem for $L^{p}$ L p harmonic 1-forms on a locally conformally flat Riemannian manifold under the assumptions on the Schrödinger operators involving the squared norm of the traceless Ricci form. This result can be regarded as a generalization of Han’s result on $L^{2}$ L 2 harmonic 1-forms.

FOUR-MANIFOLDS WITH POSITIVE CURVATURE

In this note, we prove that a four-dimensional compact oriented half-conformally flat Riemannian manifold M 4 is topologically $\mathbb{S}^{4}$ or $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^{2}$ , provided that the sectional curvatures all lie in the interval $\left[ {{{3\sqrt {3 - 5} } \over 4}, 1} \right]$ In addition, we use the notion of biorthogonal (sectional) curvature to obtain a pinching condition which guarantees that a four-dimensional compact manifold is homeomorphic to a connected sum of copies of the complex projective plane or the 4-sphere.

ON FINSLER MANIFOLDS WHOSE TANGENT BUNDLE HAS THE g-NATURAL METRIC

In this paper, we introduce a Riemannian metric [Formula: see text] and a family of framed f-structures on the slit tangent bundle [Formula: see text] of a Finsler manifold Fn = (M, F). Then we prove that there exists an almost contact structure on the tangent bundle, when this structure is restricted to the Finslerian indicatrix. We show that this structure is Sasakian if and only if Fn is of positive constant curvature 1. Finally, we prove that (i) Fn is a locally flat Riemannian manifold if and only if [Formula: see text], (ii) the Jacobi operator [Formula: see text] is zero or commuting if and only if (M, F) have the zero flag curvature.

ON PSEUDO CYCLIC RICCI SYMMETRIC MANIFOLDS

The object of the present paper is to introduce a type of non-flat Riemannian manifold called pseudo cyclic Ricci symmetric manifold and study its geometric properties. Among others it is shown that a pseudo cyclic Ricci symmetric manifold is a special type of quasi-Einstein manifold. In this paper we also study conformally flat pseudo cyclic Ricci symmetric manifolds and prove that such a manifold can be isometrically immersed in a Euclidean manifold as a hypersurface.