The curvature of the Sasaki metric of tangent sphere bundles

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-117
Author(s):  
A. L. Yampol'ski�
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2003 ◽  
Vol 133 (6) ◽  
pp. 1209-1229 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Berndt ◽  
E. Boeckx ◽  
P. T. Nagy ◽  
L. Vanhecke

A geodesic γ on the unit tangent sphere bundle T1M of a Riemannian manifold (M, g), equipped with the Sasaki metric gS, can be considered as a curve x on M together with a unit vector field V along it. We study the curves x. In particular, we investigate for which manifolds (M, g) all these curves have constant first curvature κ1 or have vanishing curvature κi for some i = 1, 2 or 3.


Author(s):  
David E. Blair

SynopsisClassically the tangent sphere bundles have formed a large class of contact manifolds; their contact structures are not in general regular, however. Specifically we prove that the natural contact structure on the tangent sphere bundle of a compact Riemannian manifold of non-positive constant curvature is not regular.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-92
Author(s):  
Abderrahim ZAGANE ◽  
Mustapha DJAA
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2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 1850008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murat Bekar ◽  
Fouzi Hathout ◽  
Yusuf Yayli

Let [Formula: see text] be a unit tangent bundle of Minkowski surface [Formula: see text] endowed with the pseudo-Riemannian induced Sasaki metric. In this present paper, we studied the N-Legendre and N-slant curves in which the inner product of its normal vector and Reeb vector is zero and nonzero constant, respectively, in [Formula: see text] and several important characterizations of these curves are given.


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