We prove the existence of Sasakian metrics with positive Ricci curvature on certain highly connected odd dimensional manifolds. In particular, we show that manifolds homeomorphic to the 2k-fold connected sum of S × S admit Sasakian metrics with positive Ricci curvature for all k. Furthermore, a formula for computing the diffeomorphism types is given and tables are presented for dimensions 7 and...

We consider generic toric Tri-Sasakian 7-manifolds X7 in the context of Mtheory on AdS4 × X7 and study their AdS/CFT correspondence to N = 3 SCFT in 3D spacetime. We obtain volumes of Tri-Sasakian manifolds and their supersymmetric 5-cycles via cohomological integration technique, and use this to calculate conformal dimensions of baryonic operators in the SCFT side. We also propose quiver-type ...

The object of the present paper is to study locally φsymmetric LP-Sasakian manifolds admitting semi-symmetric metric connection and obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for a locally φsymmetric LP-Sasakian manifold with respect to semi-symmetric metric connection to be locally φ-symmetric LP-Sasakian manifold with respect to Levi-Civita connection. AMS Mathematics Subject Classification ...

In this paper, we study 3-dimensional compact and connected trans-Sasakian manifolds find necessary sufficient conditions under which these are homothetic to Sasakian manifolds. First, four results in paper deal with finding on a manifold be manifold, the fifth result deals condition manifold. Finally, simply Einstein

We study half lightlike submanifold M of an indefinite transSasakian manifold such that its structure vector field is tangent to M . First we study the general theory for such half lightlike submanifolds. Next we prove some characterization theorems for half lightlike submanifolds of an indefinite generalized Sasakian space form.

It is still an open problem whether Riemannian manifolds all of whose local geodesic symmetries are volume–preserving (i.e., D’Atri spaces) or more generally, ball–homogeneous spaces, and C-spaces are locally homogeneous or not. We provide some partial positive answers by proving that five–dimensional locally φ–symmetric spaces can be characterized as Sasakian spaces which are ball–homogeneous ...

In the present paper we study lightlike submanifolds of almost paracontact metric manifolds. We define invariant lightlike submanifolds. We study radical transversal lightlike submanifolds of para-Sasakian manifolds and investigate the geometry of distributions. Also we introduce a general notion of paracontact Cauchy-Riemann (CR) lightlike submanifolds and we derive some necessary and sufficie...

We study canonical paracontact connection on a para-Sasakian manifold. We prove that a Ricci-flat para-Sasakian manifold with respect to canonical paracontact connection is an η-Einstein manifold.We also investigate some properties of curvature tensor, conformal curvature tensor,W2curvature tensor, concircular curvature tensor, projective curvature tensor, and pseudo-projective curvature tensor...

we obtain the expression of ricci tensor for a $gcr$-lightlikesubmanifold of indefinite complex space form and discuss itsproperties on a totally geodesic $gcr$-lightlike submanifold of anindefinite complex space form. moreover, we have proved that everyproper totally umbilical $gcr$-lightlike submanifold of anindefinite kaehler manifold is a totally geodesic $gcr$-lightlikesubmanifold.