Abstract
In the present note, we characterize Clairaut semi-invariant Riemannian maps from cosymplectic manifolds to Riemannian manifolds. Moreover, we provide a nontrivial example of such a Riemannian map.
MSC:
53C43; 53C15; 53C20; 53C55
1. Introduction
The theory of Riemannian maps between Riemannian manifolds is widely used to compare the geometric structures between two Riemannian manifolds, initiated by Fischer [1]. Let and be two Riemannian manifolds of dimensions m and n, respectively. Let a Riemannian map be a differentiable map between and such that , where represents a differential map of . If we denote the space of by and the orthogonal complementary space of by in , then the has the following orthogonal decomposition:
We denote the range of by and for a point the orthogonal complementary space of by in The tangent space has the following orthogonal decomposition:
A differentiable map is called a Riemannian map at if the horizontal restriction is a linear isometric between the inner product spaces and
Further, the notion of the Riemannian map has been studied from different perspectives, such as invariant and anti-invariant Riemannian maps [2], semi-invariant Riemannian maps [3], slant Riemannian maps [4,5,6], semi-slant Riemannian maps [7,8,9], hemi-slant Riemannian maps [10], quasi-hemi-slant Riemannian maps [11] etc.
On the other side, in the theory of the geodesics upon a surface of revolution, the prestigious Clairaut’s theorem states that for any geodesic on ) on the revolution surface the product is constant along c, where is the angle between and the meridian curve through . This means that it is independent of s. In 1972, Bishop [12] studied Riemannian submersions which are a generalization of Clairaut’s theorem. According to him, a submersion is said to be a Clairaut submersion if there is a function such that for every geodesic making an angle with the horizontal subspaces, is constant. This notion has also been studied in Lorentzian spaces, time-like and space-like spaces, by the authors [13,14,15]. Later, in [16], it was shown that such submersions have their applications in static spacetimes.
Moreover, Clairaut submersions were further generalized in [17]. We recommend the papers [18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32] and the references therein for more details about the further related studies.
In this paper, we are interested in studying the above idea in contact manifolds. Throughout the manuscript, we denote semi-invariant Riemannian maps by SIR maps and Clairaut semi-invariant Riemannian maps by CSIR maps. The article is organized as follows: In Section 2, we gather some basic facts that are needed for this paper. In Section 3, we define a CSIR map from an almost contact metric manifold to a Riemannian manifold and study its geometry. In Section 4, we give a nontrivial example of the CSIR map from cosymplectic manifolds to Riemannian manifolds.
2. Preliminaries
An odd-dimensional smooth manifold is said to have an almost contact structure [33] if there exist on a tensor field of type , a vector field , and 1-form such that
If there exists a Riemannian metric on an almost contact manifold satisfying:
where are any vector fields on , then is called an almost contact metric manifold [34] with an almost contact structure and is represented by .
An almost contact structure is said to be normal if the almost complex structure J on the product manifold is given by
where and is a differentiable function on that has no torsion, i.e., J is integrable. The condition for normality in terms of , , and is given by on , where is the Nijenhuis tensor of . Further, the fundamental 2-form is defined by .
A manifold with the structure is said to be cosymplectic [33] if
for any vector fields on , where ∇ stands for the Riemannian connection of the metric on . For a cosymplectic manifold, we have
for any vector field on
O’Neill’s tensors [35] and are given by
for any on It is easy to see that and are skew-symmetric operators on the tangent bundle of reversing the vertical and the horizontal distributions. In addition, for any vertical vector fields and , the tensor field has the symmetry property, i.e.,
while for horizontal vector fields the tensor field has alternation property, i.e.,
From Equations (9) and (10) we have
for all and where and is basic. It can be easily seen that acts on the fibers as the second fundamental form, while acts on the horizontal distribution and measures the obstruction to the integrability of the distribution.
It is noticed that for and the linear operators
are skew-symmetric, i.e.,
for each Since is skew-symmetric, we observe that has totally geodesic fibres if and only if .
The map between two Riemannian manifolds is totally geodesic if
A totally umbilical map is a Riemannian map with totally umbilical fibers [36] if
for all where H denotes the mean curvature vector field of fibers.
The map can be observed as a section of the bundle ⟶ where is the bundle which has fibers and has a connection ∇ induced from the Riemannian connection and the pullback connection , then the second fundamental form of is given by
for the vector fields . We know that the second fundamental form is symmetric.
Now, we have the following lemma [2]:
Lemma 1.
Let be a map between Riemannian manifolds. Then
As a result of above Lemma, we obtain
3. CSIR Map from Cosymplectic Manifolds
Let S be a revolution surface in with rotation axis L. For any S, we denote the distance from q to L by . Given a geodesic on S, let be the angle between and the meridian curve through , . A well-known Clairaut’s theorem says that for any geodesic on S, the product is constant along , i.e., it is independent of t.
Recently, Sahin [30] initiated the study of Clairaut Riemannian maps. He defined a map called a Clairaut Riemannian map if there exists a positive function r on such that for any geodesic on the function is constant, where for any is the angle between and the horizontal space at Moreover, he obtained the following necessary and sufficient condition for a Riemannian map to be a Clairaut Riemannian map:
Theorem 1
([30]). Let be a Riemannian map with connected fibers. Then, Π is a Clairaut Riemannian map with if each fiber is totally umbilical and has the mean curvature vector field , where is the gradient of the function f with respect to
Definition 1
([3]). Let Π be a Riemannian map from an almost contact metric manifold to a Riemannian manifold Then, we say that Π is an SIR map if there is a distribution such that
where and are mutually orthogonal distributions in (
Let denote the complementary orthogonal subbundle to in Then, we have
Obviously, is an invariant subbundle of with respect to the contact structure . We say that an SIR map admits a vertical Reeb vector field if it is tangent to and it admits a horizontal Reeb vector field if it is normal to . It is easy to see that contains the Reeb vector field in case the Riemannian map admits horizontal Reeb vector field.
Now, we define the notion of the CSIR map in contact manifolds as follows:
Definition 2.
An SIR map from a cosymplectic manifold to a Riemannian manifold is called a CSIR map if it satisfies the condition of a Clairaut Riemannian map.
For any vector field , we input
where P and Q are projection morphisms [36] of onto and respectively.
For any we obtain
where and In addition, for we have
where and
Definition 3
([14]). Let Π be an SIR map from an almost contact metric manifold to a Riemannian manifold . If or i.e., or , respectively. Then we call ϕ a Lagrangian Riemannian map. In this case, for any horizontal vector field we have
Lemma 2.
Let Π be an SIR map from a cosymplectic manifold to a Riemannian manifold admitting vertical or horizontal Reeb vector field. Then, we obtain
where and
Corollary 1.
Let Π be a Lagrangian Riemannian map from a cosymplectic manifold to a Riemannian manifold admitting vertical or horizontal Reeb vector field. Then, we obtain
where and
Lemma 3.
Let Π be an SIR map from a cosymplectic manifold to a Riemannian manifold admitting vertical or horizontal Reeb vector field. Then, we have
for and
Proof.
Using Equations (8), (14) and (16) we obtain Lemma 3. □
Lemma 4.
Let Π be an SIR map from a cosymplectic manifold to a Riemannian manifold . If is a regular curve and and are the vertical and horizontal components of the tangent vector field of respectively, then α is a geodesic if and only if along α the following relations hold:
Proof.
Let be a regular curve on Since and are the vertical and horizontal parts of the tangent vector field i.e., , from Equations (2), (7), (13)–(16), (23) and (24) we obtain
Taking the vertical and horizontal components in the above equation, we have
Thus, is a geodesic on if and only if and ; this completes the proof. □
Theorem 2.
Let Π be an SIR map from a cosymplectic manifold to a Riemannian manifold Then, Π is a CSIR map with if and only if
where is a geodesic on ; and are vertical and horizontal components of respectively.
Proof.
Let be a geodesic on with and . We denote the angle in between and by . Assuming , then we obtain
Now, differentiating (38), we obtain
Using Equations (4) and (7) in the above equation, we obtain
Thus, we obtain
Using Equations (36) and (37) in (41), we have
From Equations (40) and (42), we have
Moreover, is a Clairaut semi-invariant Riemannian map with if and only if i.e., which, by multiplying with nonzero factor , gives
Thus, from Equations (43) and (44) we have
Hence, Theorem 2 is proved. □
Corollary 2.
Let Π be an SIR map from a cosymplectic manifold to a Riemannian manifold admitting horizontal Reeb vector field. Then, we obtain
Theorem 3.
Let Π be a CSIR map from a cosymplectic manifold to a Riemannian manifold with then at least one of the following statement is true:
f is constant on ;
The fibers are one-dimensional;
for all and
Proof.
Let be a CSIR map from a cosymplectic manifold to a Riemannian manifold. Then, for using Equation (18) and Theorem 1 we obtain
Taking the inner product of Equation (45) with we have
for all
From Equations (4), (7), (13) and (46) we obtain
Since ∇ is a metric connection, by using Equations (14) and (45) in the above equation, we obtain
Taking and interchanging the role of and we obtain
From Equations (47) and (48), we obtain
If then Equation (49) and the condition of equality in the Schwarz inequality imply that either f is constant on or the fibers are one-dimensional. This implies the proof of and .
Now, from Equations (13) and (45), we obtain
for all and Using Equations (4), (7) and (50) we have
which implies
Since ∇ is a metric connection, then by using Equations (47) and (51) we have
In addition, for the Riemannian map we have
Again, using Equations (19), (21) and (52) we obtain
which implies.
If then (53) implies This completes the proof. □
Corollary 3.
Let Π be a CSIR map from a cosymplectic manifold to a Riemannian manifold with and Then, the fibers of Π are totally geodesic if and only if and
Lemma 5.
Let Π be a CSIR map from a cosymplectic manifold to a Riemannian manifold with and Then, and
Proof.
Let be a CSIR map from a cosymplectic manifold to a Riemannian manifold. From Theorem fibers are totally umbilical with mean curvature vector field then we have
for all and
Using Equations (4) and (7) in the above equation, we obtain
Since is an SIR map, by using Equation (54) we have
From (19) and (55) we obtain
which implies and □
Corollary 4.
Let Π be a CSIR map from a cosymplectic manifold to a Riemannian manifold with and Then, and
Theorem 4.
Let Π be a CSIR map with from a cosymplectic manifold to a Riemannian manifold If is not identically zero, then the invariant distribution does not define a totally geodesic foliation on
Proof.
For and , using Equations (4), (7), (13) and (18) we obtain
Thus, the assertion can be seen from the above equation and the fact that □
Theorem 5.
Let Π be a CSIR map with from a cosymplectic manifold to a Riemannian manifold Then, the fibers of Π are totally geodesic, or anti-invariant distribution is one-dimensional.
Proof.
If the fibers of are totally geodesic, it is obvious. For the second one, since is a Clairaut proper semi-invariant Riemannian map, then either or If then we can choose such that is orthonormal. From Equations (14), (23) and (24) we obtain
Taking the inner product of the above equation with we obtain
From Equation (7) we have
Now, using Equations (18) and (58) we obtain
From Equations (18), (58) and (59) we obtain
from which we obtain
Thus, we obtain
Therefore, the dimension of must be one. □
Theorem 6.
Let Π be a CSIR map from a cosymplectic manifold to a Riemannian manifold with and Then, we obtain
where and
are orthonormal frames of and μ, respectively.
Proof.
Let be a CSIR map, then for all we have
Since is a Riemannian map, in view of Equation (19), Equation (64) transforms to
Now, for all we obtain
Since and is linear, from the above equation, we have
Thus, (61) holds.
On the other side, using (19) in the first term of the right-hand side of (65), we have
which, by using Equations (4), (7) and (65), turns into
Now, by using Lemma 4 in (66) we obtain
This implies that
By using Equation (20) in the above equation, it follows that
Similarly, we find
Further, for we obtain
Since is a Riemannian map, in view of Equation (19), the above equation becomes
which, by using Lemma 4 and Equations (21) and (67) in (70) we obtain
Since and is a Riemannian map, from (71) we obtain
Thus, from Equations (4) and (72) we obtain (63). □
4. Example
Let be a differentiable manifold given by . We define the Riemannian metric on by , and the cosymplectic structure on is defined as
, , and was earlier defined.
Let be a Riemannian manifold with Riemannian metric on given by Define a map by
Then, we have
where
and
where are bases on and , respectively, for all By direct computations, we can see that and for all , . Thus, is a Riemannian map with . Moreover, it is easy to see that and Therefore, is an SIR map.
Now, we will find the smooth function f on satisfying The covariant derivative for the vector fields on is defined as
where the covariant derivative of basis vector fields and is defined by
and Christoffel symbols are defined by
Thus, we obtain
By using Equations (75) and (76) we find
Using Equations (73), (74) and (77) we calculate
Thus, we find
Now, from
we lead to
From Equations (13) and (79), we obtain
Thus, by using Equations (80) and (81) we obtain
Since For any smooth function f on , the gradient of f with respect to the metric is given by Hence, Hence, for the function Then, it is easy to see that ; thus, by Theorem 1, is a CSIR map from cosymplectic manifold onto Riemannian manifold.
5. Conclusions
In the last few years, Riemannian maps have been extensively studied between different kinds of the manifolds. Recently, a special type of Riemannian map, namely, the "Clairaut Riemannian map" was introduced and studied by Sahin [30]; moreover, he, in [37], gave an open problem to find characterizations for Clairaut Riemannian maps. As a continuation of this study, we tried to study Clairaut semi-invariat Riemannian maps in contact geometry. Here, we investigated the various most fundamental geometric properties on the fibers and distributions of these maps. In the future, we plan to focus on studying Clairaut’s semi-slant Riemannian maps, Clairaut’s hemi-slant Riemannian maps, and Clairaut’s bi-slant Riemannian maps between different kinds of the manifolds.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, Y.L., R.P., A.H. and S.K. (Sushil Kumar); methodology, Y.L., R.P., A.H. and S.K. (Sumeet Kumar); investigation, R.P., A.H., S.K. (Sushil Kumar) and S.K. (Sumeet Kumar); writing—original draft preparation, Y.L., A.H., S.K. (Sushil Kumar) and S.K. (Sumeet Kumar); writing—review and editing, Y.L., R.P., S.K. (Sushil Kumar) and S.K. (Sumeet Kumar). All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12101168) and Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. LQ22A010014).
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Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully thank the reviewers for the constructive comments to improve the quality of the paper.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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