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. ThenAs 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 thatwhere 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 obtainwhere and Proof. Using Equations (
7), (
13)–(
16), (
23) and (
24), we obtain Lemma 2. □
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 obtainwhere 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 havefor 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 ifwhere 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
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
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
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
By using Equation (20) in the above equation, it follows that
Thus, by using Equations (
67)–(
69) in Equation (65) we obtain (62).
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
By using Equations (75) and (76) we find
Using Equations (73), (74) and (77) we calculate
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.