Five-dimensional -symmetric spaces.
Flow-symmetric Riemannian manifolds.
Foliations by minimal surfaces and contact structures on certain closed 3-manifolds.
Four-dimensional ball-homogeneous and -spaces.
Four-dimensional Einstein metrics from biconformal deformations
Biconformal deformations take place in the presence of a conformal foliation, deforming by different factors tangent to and orthogonal to the foliation. Four-manifolds endowed with a conformal foliation by surfaces present a natural context to put into effect this process. We develop the tools to calculate the transformation of the Ricci curvature under such deformations and apply our method to construct Einstein -manifolds. Examples of one particular family have ends which collapse asymptotically...
From infinitesimal harmonic transformations to Ricci solitons
The concept of the Ricci soliton was introduced by R. S. Hamilton. The Ricci soliton is defined by a vector field and it is a natural generalization of the Einstein metric. We have shown earlier that the vector field of the Ricci soliton is an infinitesimal harmonic transformation. In our paper, we survey Ricci solitons geometry as an application of the theory of infinitesimal harmonic transformations.