On a Problem of D'Atri and Nickerson.
We consider a semisymmetric metric connection in an almost Kenmotsu manifold with its characteristic vector field belonging to the -nullity distribution and -nullity distribution respectively. We first obtain the expressions of the curvature tensor and Ricci tensor with respect to the semisymmetric metric connection in an almost Kenmotsu manifold with belonging to - and -nullity distribution respectively. Then we characterize an almost Kenmotsu manifold with belonging to -nullity distribution...
A proof of the Chekanov theorem is discussed from a geometric point of view. Similar results in the context of projectivized cotangent bundles are proved. Some applications are given.
Conformally flat metric is said to be Ricci superosculating with at the point if , , , where is the Ricci tensor. In this paper the following theorem is proved: If is a smooth curve of the Riemannian manifold (without self-crossing(, then there is a neighbourhood of and a conformally flat metric which is the Ricci superosculating with along the curve .
In this Note, by using a generalization of the classical Fermat principle, we prove the existence and multiplicity of lightlike geodesics joining a point with a timelike curve on a class of Lorentzian manifolds, satisfying a suitable compactness assumption, which is weaker than the globally hyperbolicity.
In our previous paper, almost cosymplectic (κ, μ, ν)-spaces were defined as the almost cosymplectic manifolds whose structure tensor fields satisfy a certain special curvature condition. Amongst other results, it was proved there that any almost cosymplectic (κ, μ, ν)-space can be -homothetically deformed to an almost cosymplectic −1, μ′, 0)-space. In the present paper, a complete local description of almost cosymplectic (−1, μ, 0)-speces is established: “models” of such spaces are constructed,...