Recently S. Tanno has classified connected almostcontact Riemannian manifolds whose automorphism groups have themaximum dimension [9]. In his classification table the almost contactRiemannian manifolds are divided into three classes: (1) homogeneousnormal contact Riemannian manifolds with constant 0-holomorphic sec-tional curvature if the sectional curvature for 2-planes which contain

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A class of almost contact riemannian manifolds

Certain conditions for a Riemannian manifold to be isometric with a sphere:Dedicated to Professor Kentaro Yano on his fiftieth birthday

We give a description of all complete simply connected Riemannian manifolds carrying real Killing spinors. Furthermore, we present a construction method for manifolds with the exceptional holonomy groupsG
2 and Spin(7).

https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.cmp/1104253076

Real Killing spinors and holonomy

http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~muffy/papers/calder-kolberg-magill-reiff.pdf

Feature interaction: a critical review and considered forecast

We analyse the geometrical structure of supersymmetric solutions of type II supergravity of the form Open image in new window1,9−n×Mn with non-trivial NS flux and dilaton. Solutions of this type arise naturally as the near-horizon limits of wrapped NS fivebrane geometries. We concentrate on the case d=7, preserving two or four supersymmetries, corresponding to branes wrapped on associative or SLAG three-cycles. Given the existence of Killing spinors, we show that M7 admits a G2-structure or an SU(3)-structure, respectively, of specific type. We also prove the converse result. We use the existence of these geometric structures as a new technique to derive some known and new explicit solutions, as well as a simple theorem implying that we have vanishing NS three-form and constant dilaton whenever M7 is compact with no boundary. The analysis extends simply to other type II examples and also to type I supergravity.

G-Structures and Wrapped NS5-Branes

Preface * 1. Symplectic Manifolds * 2. Principal S1-bundles * 3. Contact Manifolds * 4. Associated Metrics * 5. Integral Submanifolds and Contact Transformations * 6. Sasakian and Cosymplectic Manifolds * 7. Curvature of Contact Metric Manifolds * 8. Submanifolds of Kahler and Sasakian Manifolds * 9. Tangent Bundles and Tangent Sphere Bundles * 10. Curvature Functionals and Spaces of Associated Metrics * 11. Negative Xi-sectional Curvature * 12. Complex Contact Manifolds * 13. Additional Topics in Complex Geometry * 14. 3-Sasakian Manifolds * Bibliography * Subject Index * Author Index

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Riemannian Geometry of Contact and Symplectic Manifolds

Contact manifolds.- Almost contact manifolds.- Geometric interpretation of the contact condition.- K-contact and sasakian structures.- Sasakian space forms.- Non-existence of flat contact metric structures.- The tangent sphere bundle.

Contact manifolds in Riemannian geometry

This paper presents a study of contact metric manifolds for which the characteristic vector field of the contact structure satisfies a nullity type condition, condition (*) below. There are a number of reasons for studying this condition and results concerning it given in the paper: There exist examples in all dimensions; the condition is invariant underD-homothetic deformations; in dimensions>5 the condition determines the curvature completely; and in dimension 3 a complete, classification is given, in particular these include the 3-dimensional unimodular Lie groups with a left invariant metric.

Contact metric manifolds satisfying a nullity condition

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The theory of quasi-Sasakian structures

Generalized Sasakian-space-forms are introduced and studied. Many examples of these manifolds are presented, by using some different geometric techniques such as Riemannian submersions, warped products or conformal and related transformations. New results on generalized complex-space-forms are also obtained.

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David E. Blair

Papers

Riemannian Geometry of Contact and Symplectic Manifolds

Contact manifolds in Riemannian geometry

Contact metric manifolds satisfying a nullity condition

The theory of quasi-Sasakian structures

Generalized Sasakian-space-forms