Abstract
In this paper, we introduce the concept of contravariant Einstein-like Poisson manifolds of classes , , and . We then prove that the fiber space of a Poisson warped product manifold inherits the contravariant Einstein-like classes of the total space, while the base space inherits these classes under certain conditions related to the warping function. We also explore applications of contravariant Einstein-like Poisson structures in various spacetime models, including generalized Robertson–Walker, Reissner–Nordström, and standard static spacetimes.
MSC:
53D17; 53C50; 53C25
1. Introduction
In [1], Poisson introduced a crucial binary operation to identify integrals of motion in Hamiltonian mechanics, called the Poisson bracket. Later, Lichnerowicz [2] advanced this concept by formalizing the idea of a Poisson manifold, defined as a smooth manifold equipped with a Poisson bracket, which generalizes the notion of symplectic manifolds. This development marked the beginning of Poisson geometry as an active field of research, with significant applications not only in Hamiltonian mechanics but also across various mathematical disciplines, such as singularity theory, noncommutative geometry, representation theory, and quantum groups. Consequently, a wide range of geometric structures on Poisson manifolds were introduced and explored. Among these, the contravariant derivative on Poisson manifolds was first proposed by Vaisman [3] and later thoroughly analyzed by Fernandes [4]. The relationship between contravariant gravity and Einstein gravity on Poisson manifolds was studied in [5]. Einstein warped product manifolds with warping functions satisfying the homogeneous screened Poisson equation were investigated in [6]. The geometry of Riemannian warped/twisted product submerssion and Kenmostu manifolds with quarter-symmetric non-metric connections was studied in [7,8]. Einstein structures and sectional curvatures on doubly warped product Poisson manifolds were investigated in [9,10]. Additionally, contravariant Einstein equations and the cosmological constant on Lorentzian warped product Poisson spaces were determined in [11].
It is important to note that singly warped products, initially constructed by Bishop and O’Neill [12] to study Riemannian manifolds with negative sectional curvatures, play a significant role in the theory of relativity. In fact, standard spacetime models such as generalized Robertson–Walker, Reissner–Nordström, and standard static spacetimes are examples of singly warped products. However, the theory of relativity required a broader class of manifolds, which led to the introduction of Poisson warped product manifolds.
Given two Poisson manifolds and equipped with pseudo-Riemannian metrics and , respectively, and for a positive smooth function f on , the product manifold equipped with the product Poisson structure and the warped product metric is called a Poisson warped product manifold (abbreviated as PWPM). In this context, the manifold is called the base space, is named the fiber space, and f is referred to as a warping function on (for more details, see [11]).
In [13], Gray introduced a new family of Riemannian manifolds called Einstein-like spaces, which are considered a generalization of Einstein manifolds. The family of Einstein-like manifolds includes, in addition to the Einstein spaces and the class of Ricci-parallel manifolds, two broader classes of Riemannian manifolds defined as follows: A Riemannian manifold with a covariant Levi-Civita connection ∇ is said to be of class , if its covariant Ricci tensor is cyclic-parallel. This means that for any vector field U tangent to N,
or equivalently, for all vector fields and ,
This also implies that is a Killing tensor. A Riemannian manifold is said to be of class , if its Ricci tensor is Codazzi, meaning
for all and . The intersection of these two classes and is the class of Ricci-parallel manifolds , which satisfies, for all vector fields and tangent to N,
In [14] (see Chapter 16), Besse presented a comprehensive study of these classes of manifolds. Since then, there has been increasing interest in studying Einstein-like manifolds in various spaces and under different conditions. For instance, semi-symmetric Einstein-like manifolds of classes and were explored in [15]. In [16], authors investigated the construction of compact warped products with harmonic Weyl tensor, generalizing the concept of Einstein manifolds. In [17], a complete classification of three-dimensional Einstein-like manifolds of class or , which are Ricci curvature homogeneous, was established. A classification of spheres and projective spaces with Einstein-like metrics of class or is presented in [18], and a classification of a class of four-dimensional Einstein-like homogeneous manifolds is provided in [19].
In [20,21], the authors studied Einstein-like singly and doubly warped product manifolds of classes , , and . Building on these works, as well as recent advances in Einstein warped product Poisson spaces [9,11], we introduce in this paper a generalization of Einstein Poisson manifolds to Einstein-like Poisson spaces. Specifically, we define contravariant Einstein-like metrics of classes , , and on Poisson manifolds and investigate their inheritance properties on the factor spaces of PWPMs. In this paper, we aim to fill this gap in the literature.
This paper is organized as follows: In Section 2, some basic notions on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds equipped with a Poisson structure and some geometric structures on PWPMs are provided. In Section 3, we introduce the concept of contravariant Einstein-like metrics of classes , , and on Poisson manifolds. We then provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the base manifolds of Einstein-like PWPMs to inherit Einstein-like classes. Finally, as physical applications, we consider contravariant Einstein-like Poisson structures in generalized Robertson–Walker, Reissner–Nordström, and standard static spacetimes.
2. Preliminaries
2.1. Poisson Brackets
A Poisson bracket on a smooth manifold N is a Lie bracket on the space of real-valued smooth functions on N, which satisfies the Leibniz rule
This property ensures that for any function , the operation acts as a derivation. As a result, there exists a unique vector field on N, called the Hamiltonian vector field of , which satisfies
The function is called a Casimir function on N, if .
The Poisson bracket can also be described in terms of a Poisson tensor , which is a bivector field on N, defined by
A smooth manifold N equipped with a Poisson tensor is called a Poisson manifold, denoted by .
2.2. Contravariant Connections
For a given Poisson manifold , we can associate the anchor map , defined for any by
and the Koszul bracket on the space of differential 1-forms on N, given by
where denotes the Lie derivative of with respect to the vector field .
A contravariant connection associated with the Poisson manifold is an -bilinear map satisfying the following properties:
- (i)
- For any smooth function , the mapping is -linear, i.e.,
- (ii)
- For any , the map acts as a derivation
The torsion and the curvature associated with are defined, respectively, by
for any .
When , the connection is said to be torsion-free.
Similar to the covariant case, for a differential 1-form on N, we can define the contravariant derivative of multivector fields of degree r using the derivation as follows [22]:
Now, consider a covariant pseudo-Riemannian metric on N. Using the musical isomorphism , we can associate the contravariant metric g defined for any by
For each pair , there exists a unique contravariant connection on N such that is torsion-free and the metric g is parallel with respect to , i.e.,
This connection is called a Levi-Civita contravariant connection and is given by the Koszul formula:
For any and for any , we have
where is the field endomorphism that relates the metric g and the Poisson tensor .
The contravariant Ricci curvature of an n-dimensional manifold at a point is defined by
where is a local orthonormal basis of with respect to g on open .
2.3. Horizontal and Vertical Lifts
In this subsection, we review the definitions and properties of horizontal and vertical lifts of tensor fields defined on a product manifold [22,24].
Let and be two smooth manifolds and let and be the spaces of vector fields on and , respectively. Furthermore, let and be the first and second projections of onto and , respectively.
For any , the horizontal lift of to is the smooth function on .
Let and . For any , the horizontal lift of to is the unique tangent vector field in such that
We can similarly define the vertical lift of a function and the vertical lift of a vector field to using the second projection .
Next, let be a smooth 1-form on . The pullback of by the first projection is a smooth 1-form on , called the horizontal lift of to , such that for any , we have
Similarly, we can define the vertical lift of a smooth 1-form using the second projection .
Lemma 1
([25]). For any , , and for any and , we have
2.4. Poisson Warped Product Manifolds
The geometry of warped product spaces equipped with a product Poisson structure was studied in [11].
Let and be two pseudo-Riemannian metrics on and , respectively. The warped product manifold is the product space equipped with the warped metric,
where is a smooth function on , called the warping function.
For any 1-forms and , the contravariant metric g associated with is explicitly defined by
where and are the contravariant metrics associated, respectively, to and .
Now, let and be two Poisson tensors on and , respectively. The product Poisson structure on is the unique Poisson structure such that for any 1-forms and , we have
Definition 1.
The product manifold equipped with a product Poisson structure and a warped product metric is called a PWPM.
Notation 1.
In this work, we adopt the following notations:
- 1.
- For i = 1,2, the manifold has dimensions , where .
- 2.
- is the anchor map associated with the Poisson tensor on .
- 3.
- The Koszul bracket on is denoted by .
- 4.
- is the field endomorphism that is related to and the metric .
- 5.
- The Levi-Civita contravariant connection associated with is denoted by .
- 6.
- The contravariant Ricci curvature of is denoted by .
- 7.
- The contravariant Hessian of the warping function f on is denoted by .
For any and , let and . Thus, we have
The Levi-Civita contravariant connection associated with is given by
The contravariant Ricci curvature of is expressed by
where .
3. Contravariant Einstein-like Poisson Warped Product Manifolds
Similar to the covariant case, in this section, we introduce the contravariant analogues of Einstein-like metrics of classes , , and defined on a Poisson manifold equipped with a contravariant metric g. We then investigate these classes on the factor manifolds of a PWPM . We prove that the fiber space inherits the contravariant Einstein-like classes of N, whereas the base space is contravariant Einstein-like manifold of class (resp. ) if and only if for any 1-forms , the contravariant tensor given by
is cyclic-parallel (resp. Codazzi, parallel).
3.1. Class
A Poisson manifold equipped with a contravariant metric g is said to be contravariant Einstein-like of class if its Ricci tensor is cyclic-parallel, i.e.,
for any 1-forms or equivalently,
In this context, the contravariant Ricci curvature is also called a Killing tensor.
Lemma 2.
Let be a PWPM. Then, for any , , and , we have
Proof.
Theorem 1.
Let be a PWPM associated with and . If N is contravariant Einstein-like of class , then
- 1.
- is contravariant Einstein-like of class if and only iffor any .
- 2.
- is contravariant Einstein-like of class .
Proof.
Consider two special cases, namely when and in Equation (9).
- The first one yieldsIf N is Einstein-like of class , thenConsequently, is Einstein-like of class if and only ifThus, the first part of the theorem follows.
- For the second case, where , we obtainIf N is Einstein-like of class , thenConsequently, is contravariant Einstein-like of class .
□
Corollary 1.
Let be a PWPM and f be a Casimir function on . Then, N is contravariant Einstein-like of class if and only if both and are contravariant Einstein-like manifolds of class .
Proof.
First, note that f is a Casimir function on if and only if . Using this hypothesis in Equation (9), we obtain
and the corollary follows. □
3.2. Class
A Poisson manifold equipped with a contravariant metric g is said to be contravariant Einstein-like of class if its Ricci tensor is a Codazzi tensor, i.e.,
for any .
First, we define the contravariant tensor as follows:
Lemma 3.
Let be a PWPM. For any 1-forms , , let , , and . Then, we have
where is the contravariant tensor defined by .
Proof.
Theorem 2.
Let be a PWPM associated with and . If N is a contravariant Einstein-like manifold of class , then
- 1.
- is contravariant Einstein-like of class if and only if for any and , we havewhere .
- 2.
- is contravariant Einstein-like of class .
Proof.
From Lemma 3, for any 1-forms and , we have
and
If N is Einstein-like of class , then . Consequently, is Einstein-like of class if and only if
Furthermore, if N is Einstein-like of class , then . Therefore, is of class . □
Corollary 2.
Let be a PWPM and f a Casimir function on . Then, N is a contravariant Einstein-like manifold of class if and only if both and are contravariant Einstein-like manifolds of class .
3.3. Class
A Poisson manifold equipped with a contravariant metric g is said to be contravariant Einstein-like of class if admitting a parallel Ricci-tensor, i.e.,
for any .
Lemma 4.
Let be a PWPM. For any 1-forms , , let , , and . Then, we have
Proof.
Theorem 3.
Let be an Einstein-like PWPM of class . Then,
- 1.
- is a contravariant Einstein-like Poisson manifold of class if and only if
- 2.
- is a contravariant Einstein-like Poisson manifold of class .
Proof.
Using Lemma 4, for any 1-forms and , we have
and
If N is Einstein-like of class , then . Therefore, is Einstein-like of class if and only if
Additionally, if N is Einstein-like of class , then
Consequently, the fiber manifold is of class . □
Corollary 3.
Let be a PWPM and f a Casimir function on . Then, N is Einstein-like of class if and only if both and are Einstein-like of class .
4. Physical Applications
4.1. Einstein-like Poisson Warped Spacetimes with One-Dimensional Base
Let be a connected open interval of equipped with the metric , and let be a smooth function on I. Also, let be a -dimensional pseudo-Riemannian manifold, where , and let and be Poisson tensors on I and , respectively. The product manifold , equipped with the product Poisson structure and the warped metric , is called a Poisson warped product spacetime with a one-dimensional base.
Since is one-dimensional, the Poisson structure on is trivial and, for any 1-forms , the contravariant Levi-Civita connection on N is given by
whereas the contravariant Ricci tensor on N is given by
Using Lemma 2, (resp. Lemmas 3 and 4) the Poisson warped product spacetime is contravariant Einstein-like of class (resp. , ) if and only if its fiber manifold is contravariant Einstein-like of class (resp. , ).
In the special case of the above situation, where is a Riemannian manifold, the triplet is said to be a Poisson generalized Robertson–Walker spacetime. This produces the following result:
Theorem 4.
The Poisson generalized Robertson–Walker spacetime is contravariant Einstein like of class (resp. , ) if and only if its fiber manifold is contravariant Einstein-like of class (resp. , ).
4.2. Einstein-like Poisson Warped Spacetimes with Two-Dimensional Base
Let be a two-dimensional manifold equipped with metric defined by
where , k and m are some non-zero constants. Let the warping function on and the unit two-dimensional sphere equipped with the standard metric. Let and be Poisson tensors on and , respectively. The product manifold equipped with the product Poisson structure and the warped metric
is said to be a Poisson Reissner–Nordström spacetime.
For any and , the contravariant derivative and the Ricci tensor on N are given, respectively, by
and
Theorem 5.
If the Poisson Reissner–Nordström spacetime is contravariant Einstein-like of class (resp. , ), then
- 1.
- is contravariant Einstein-like of class (resp. , ) if and only if the tensor defined for any byis cyclic-parallel (resp. Codazzi, parallel).
- 2.
- is Einstein-like of class (resp. class , ).
4.3. Einstein-like Poisson Warped Spacetimes with Three-Dimensional Base
Let be a three-dimensional Poisson manifold equipped with a positive definite metric and a smooth function on . Also, let be an open interval of equipped with the trivial Poisson structure and the metric . The product manifold equipped with the product Poisson structure and warped metric , where is the projection of onto , is said to be a Poisson standard static spacetime. For any , the contravariant derivative on N is given by
and the contravariant Ricci tensor on N is given by
Theorem 6.
If the Poisson standard static spacetime is contravariant Einstein-like of class (resp. , ), then its base manifold is Einstein-like of class (resp. , ) if and only if the tensor defined for any by
is cyclic-parallel (resp. Codazzi, parallel).
Example 1.
Let be a three-dimensional smooth manifold with coordinates and be equipped with the Euclidean metric
Let be a warping function on , and define a Poisson tensor on by
Also, let be the contravariant metric associated with . Since is a -orthonormal basis on , the field endomorphism is given by
Moreover, the differential of f is
By applying to , we obtain
Let be an open interval of equipped with the trivial Poisson structure and the metric
The contravariant Ricci tensor on is given for any by
Therefore, we deduce that the Poisson standard static spacetime is contravariant Einstein-like of class (resp. , ) if and only if its base manifold is Einstein-like of class (resp. , ).
Remark 1.
It is worth exploring the implications of the structure developed in this paper for Poisson manifolds and, in particular, its relevance to general relativity. In this context, it will be crucial to investigate the role of the Poisson tensor in general relativity.
5. Conclusions
In conclusion, this research paper introduces contravariant Einstein-like metrics on Poisson manifolds, focusing on classes , and , which generalize cyclic-parallel, Codazzi, and parallel Ricci tensors to Poisson geometry. By analyzing PWPMs, we prove that the fiber space inherits the contravariant Einstein-like classes. Additionally, we establish necessary and sufficient conditions, determined by the warping function, for the base manifolds to inherit classes. This analysis underscores the critical role of the warping function f and its interplay with the contravariant Ricci curvature.
The physical relevance of this framework is demonstrated through applications to spacetime models, including generalized Robertson–Walker, Reissner–Nordström, and standard static spacetimes. These examples illustrate how relativistic geometries inherit such structures under specific compatibility conditions. The findings of this research hold significant implications for various areas of differential geometry and mathematical physics, particularly in advancing the understanding of warped product manifolds, which play a central role in theoretical physics and the theory of relativity.
This work addresses a specific gap in the literature by extending the study of Einstein-like manifolds to PWPMs. The insights gained from this study not only deepen our understanding of Einstein-like PWPMs but also provide a robust foundation for further research and applications in related fields.
Future work will aim to generalize these findings to Einstein-like and quasi-Einstein structures defined on doubly warped product manifolds equipped with Poisson structures, inspired by the works [20,26].
Funding
This work was supported and funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU) (grant number IMSIU-DDRSP2502).
Data Availability Statement
Data are contained within this article.
Conflicts of Interest
The author declares no conflicts of interest.
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