We consider the unit tangent sphere bundle of Riemannian manifold ( M, g ) with g-natural metric G̃ and we equip it to an almost contact B-metric structure. Considering this structure, we show that there is a direct correlation between the Riemannian curvature tensor of ( M, g ) and local symmetry property of G̃. More precisely, we prove that the flatness of metric g is necessary and sufficien...

An indecomposable Riemannian symmetric space which admits nontrivial twistor spinors has constant sectional curvature. Furthermore, each homogeneous Riemannian manifold with parallel spinors is at. In the present paper we solve the twistor equation on all indecomposable Lorentzian symmetric spaces explicitly. In particular, we show that there are-in contrast to the Riemannian case-indecom-posab...

We classify the connected pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of signature (p, q) with q ≥ 5 so that at each point of M the skew-symmetric curvature operator has constant rank 2 and constant Jordan normal form on the set of spacelike 2 planes and so that the skew-symmetric curvature operator is not nilpotent for at least one point of M .

We improve Chen-Ricci inequalities for a Lagrangian submanifold Mn of dimension n (n 2) in a 2n -dimensional complex space form M̃2n(4c) of constant holomorphic sectional curvature 4c with a semi-symmetric metric connection and a Legendrian submanifold Mn in a Sasakian space form M̃2n+1(c) of constant φ -sectional curvature c with a semi-symmetric metric connection, respectively.

In this paper we shall discuss hypersurfaces M of space forms of constant curvature; where curvature means one of the symmetric functions of curvature associated to the second fundamental form. The values of the constant will be chosen so that the linearized equation will be an elliptic equation onM . For example, for surfaces in 3 the two possible curvatures are the mean curvature H and the Ga...

We prove that if (M, g) is a compact locally irreducible Riemannian manifold with nonnegative isotropic curvature, then one of the following possibilities hold: (i) M admits a metric with positive isotropic curvature (ii) (M, g) is isometric to a locally symmetric space (iii) (M, g) is Kähler and biholomorphic to CP n. This is implied by the following two results: (i) Let (M, g) be a compact, l...

We study a family of 3-dimensional Lorentz manifolds. Some members of the family are 0-curvature homogeneous, 1-affine curvature homogeneous , but not 1-curvature homogeneous. Some are 1-curvature homogeneous but not 2-curvature homogeneous. All are 0-modeled on indecomposible local symmetric spaces. Some of the members of the family are geodesically complete, others are not. All have vanishing...

Let M be a simply connected Riemannian symmetric space, with at most one flat direction. We show that every Riemannian (or unitary) vector bundle with parallel curvature over M is an associated vector bundle of a canonical principal bundle, with the connection inherited from the principal bundle. The problem of finding Riemannian (or unitary) vector bundles with parallel curvature then reduces ...

In this paper we formulate new curvature functions on Sn via integral operators. For certain even orders, these curvature functions are equivalent to the classic curvature functions defined via differential operators, but not for all even orders. Existence result for antipodally symmetric prescribed curvature functions on Sn is obtained. As a corollary, the existence of a conformal metric for a...