Gray s decomposition on doubly warped product manifolds and applications
Hoda K. El-Sayed, Carlo Alberto Mantica, Sameh Shenawy, Noha Syied

TL;DR
This paper investigates conditions under which factor manifolds of doubly warped product manifolds inherit Gray's decomposition properties, leading to new insights into Einstein-like structures and applications in space-time models.
Contribution
It provides necessary and sufficient conditions on warping functions for factor manifolds to belong to the same Einstein-like class, extending Gray's decomposition to doubly warped products.
Findings
Inheritance of Einstein-like properties under specific warping conditions
Characterization of Einstein-like doubly warped space-times of types A, B, and P
Extension of Gray's decomposition to complex manifold structures
Abstract
A. Gray presented an interesting invariant decomposition of the covariant derivative of the Ricci tensor. Manifolds whose Ricci tensor satisfies the defining property of each orthogonal class are called Einstein-like manifolds. In the present paper, we answered the following question: Under what condition(s), does a factor manifold of a doubly warped product manifold lie in the same Einstein-like class of ? By imposing sufficient and necessary conditions on the warping functions, an inheritance property of each class is proved. As an application, Einstein-like doubly warped product space-times of type or are considered.
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Gray’s decomposition
on doubly warped product manifolds and applications
Hoda K. El-Sayied
Mathematics Department, Faculty of Science, Tanata University, Tanta, Egypt
,
Carlo A. Mantica
I.I.S. Lagrange, Via L. Modignani 65, 20161 Milan, Italy,
,
Sameh Shenawy
Modern Academy for engineering and Technology, Maadi, Egypt http://www.modern-academy.edu.eg and
N. Syied Modern Academy for engineering and Technology, Maadi, Egypt [email protected], [email protected] http://www.modern-academy.edu.eg
Abstract.
A. Gray presented an interesting invariant decomposition of the covariant derivative of the Ricci tensor. Manifolds whose Ricci tensor satisfies the defining property of each orthogonal class are called Einstein-like manifolds. In the present paper, we answered the following question: Under what condition(s), does a factor manifold of a doubly warped product manifold lie in the same Einstein-like class of ? By imposing sufficient and necessary conditions on the warping functions, an inheritance property of each class is proved. As an application, Einstein-like doubly warped product space-times of type or are considered.
Key words and phrases:
Codazzi Ricci tensor, doubly warped manifolds, Killing Ricci tensor, doubly warped space-times, Einstein-like manifolds.
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification:
Primary 53C21; Secondary 53C50, 53C80
1. An introduction
Alfred Gray in [22] presented invariant orthogonal irreducible decomposition of the space of all tensors satisfying only the identities of the gradient of the Ricci tensor . The space is decomposed into three orthogonal irreducible subspaces, that is, . This decomposition produces seven classes of Einstein-like manifolds, that is, manifolds whose Ricci tensor satisfies the defining identity of each subspace. They are the trivial class , the classes , , and three composite classes , and .
In class , the Ricci tensor is parallel i.e. whereas class contains manifolds whose Ricci tensor is Killing. The Ricci tensor of manifolds in class is a Codazzi tensor i.e. . The traceless part of the Ricci tensor vanishes in class i.e. class contains Sinyukov manifolds[26]. The tensor
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is Killing in class whereas the tensor
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is a Codazzi tensor in class . The class is identified by having constant scalar curvature. The same decomposition is discussed extensively in [3, Chapter 16] (see also [24, 26] and Section 3 for more details and equivalent conditions). Thereafter, Einstein-like manifolds have been studied by many authors such as G. Calvaruso in [7, 8, 9, 10] Mantica et al in [24, 25, 26] and many others [2, 5, 6, 30, 36]. An interesting study in [26] shows Einstein-like generalized Robertson-Walker space-times are perfect fluid space-times except those in class which are not restricted. Sufficient conditions on generalized Robertson-Walker space-times in this class to be a perfect fluid are derived in [13].
Doubly warped products is a generalization of singly warped products introduced in [4]. The geometric properties of doubly warped product manifolds have been investigated by many authors such as pseudo-convexity in [1], harmonic Weyl conformal curvature tensor in [18], conformal flatness in [20, 21], geodesic completeness in [35], doubly warped product submanifolds in [17, 28, 29, 31] and conformal vector fields in [15]. Doubly warped space-times are widely used as exact solutions of Einstein’s field equations. Recently, the existence of compact Einstein doubly warped product manifolds is considered in [23].
Inspired by the above studies of Einstein-like metrics and doubly warped product manifolds, we studied doubly warped product manifolds equipped with Einstein-like metrics. The inheritance properties of the Einstein-like class type , , , or are investigated. To assure that factor manifolds of a doubly warped product manifold inherits the Einstein-like class type, sufficient and necessary conditions are derived on the warping functions. Finally, we apply the results to doubly warped space-times.
2. Preliminaries
A doubly warped product manifold is the (pseudo-)Riemannian product manifold of two (pseudo-)Riemannian manifolds furnished with the metric tensor
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where the functions are the warping functions of . is denoted by . The maps are the natural projections onto whereas ∗ denotes the pull-back operator on tensors. In particular, if for example , then is called a singly warped product manifold (see [15, 35] for doubly warped products and [4, 14, 16, 27, 33, 34] for singly warped products).
Notation 1**.**
Throughout this work, we use the following notations
- (1)
All tensor fields on are identified with their lifts to . For example, we use for a function on and for its lift on . 2. (2)
The manifolds has dimensions where . 3. (3)
* is the Ricci curvature tensor on and i is the Ricci tensor on .* 4. (4)
The gradient of on is denoted by and the Laplacian by whereas . 5. (5)
The indices and to denote the geometric objects of the factor manifolds and . 6. (6)
The tensors is defined as
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for and .
The Levi-Civita connection on is given by
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where and . Then the Ricci curvature tensor on is given by
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where and . The reader is referred to [12, 11, 19] for some studies of curvature conditions on warped product manifolds.
3. Einstein-like doubly warped product manifolds
The Einstein-like doubly warped product manifolds are investigated in this section. Every subsection is devoted to the study of a class of Einstein-like doubly warped product manifolds. Sufficient and necessary conditions are derived on the warping functions for factor manifolds to acquire the same Einstein-like class type.
3.1. Class
A doubly warped product manifold whose Ricci tensor is Killing, that is,
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for any vector fields is called Einstein-like doubly warped product manifold of class . This condition equivalent to
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for any vector field and the Ricci tensor is also called cyclic parallel. The legacy of factor manifolds of in class is as follows.
Theorem 1**.**
In a doubly warped product manifold where is of class type , a factor manifold is an Einstein-like manifold of class if and only if
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where and .
Proof.
In a doubly warped product manifold of class , it is
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Thus, for a the special case where lands on one factor, one may get
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Thus, after lengthy computations, it is
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These equations complete the proof. ∎
It is now easy to recover a similar result on singly warped product manifolds.
Corollary 1**.**
In a singly warped product manifold where is of class type , is an Einstein-like manifold of class if and only if is Killing. In addition, is of class type .
3.2. Class
Let be as Einstein-like doubly warped product manifold of class . Then, the Ricci tensor is a Codazzi tensor,that is,
[TABLE]
The above condition is equivalent to:
- (1)
has a harmonic Riemann tensor, that is, , or 2. (2)
admits a harmonic Weyl conformal tensor and the scalar curvature is constant, that is, and .
The base manifold and the fiber manifold gain the Einstein-like class type according to.
Theorem 2**.**
In a doubly warped product manifold where is of class type , the factor manifold is an Einstein-like manifold of class if and only if
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where and .
Proof.
Let us define the deviation tensor as follows
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There are three different cases. Let us consider the first case, that is,
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It is enough to find as
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Simplifying this expression, it is
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By exchanging and in the last equation and substitution in Equation (3.1), one gets the deviation tensor. For Einstein-like manifolds of class , the deviation tensor vanishes from which the result hold. ∎
It is easy to retrieve a similar result on a singly warped product manifold.
Corollary 2**.**
In a singly warped product manifold where is of class type , is an Einstein-like manifold of class if and only if
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where . In addition, is Einstein-like of class type .
3.3. Class
Let be an Einstein-like doubly warped product manifold of class . Thus, has a parallel Ricci tensor, that is,
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Manifolds in this class are usually called Ricci symmetric.
Theorem 3**.**
In a doubly warped product manifold where is of class type , is an Einstein-like manifold of class if and only if
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where and .
Proof.
Let be a Ricci symmetric doubly warped product manifold, that is,
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Equation (3.2) infers
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Thus, having a parallel Ricci tensor implies
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This equation completes the proof. ∎
The corresponding result on singly warped product manifolds is as follows.
Corollary 3**.**
In a singly warped product manifold where is of class type . Then is an Einstein-like manifold of class if and only if
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where . Also, is Einstein-like of class type .
3.4. Class
A doubly warped product manifold is of class type if its Ricci tensor satisfies
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that is, the tensor is a Codazzi tensor. This condition is equivalent to
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where is the Weyl conformal curvature tensor and , i.e., has a harmonic Weyl tensor. Let be a conformal change of on a manifold . It is well known that the Weyl tensor remains invariant, that is, however . The divergence of the Weyl tensor is given by[3]
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The doubly warped product metric may be rewritten as follows
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where and . The doubly warped product manifold has harmonic Weyl tensor if and only
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where . Assume that , then
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having a harmonic Weyl tensor is equivalent to the condition
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where is the Cotton tensor. The metric splits as and consequently the divergence of the Cotton tensor splits on the factor manifolds as
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In this case, , that is, is constant if and only if the cotton tensor on the doubly warped factor manifolds vanishes i.e.
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The Weyl tensors on doubly warped product factor manifolds satisfy
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It is time now to write the following result.
Theorem 4**.**
In a doubly warped product manifold where is of class type . Assume that and the conformal change has a constant scalar curvature. Then is an Einstein-like manifold of class if and only if for each .
A. Gebarowski proved an inheritance property of this class in [18, Theorem 2].
3.5. Class
Doubly warped product manifolds where the tensor
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is Killing lies the class . The above condition is equivalent to
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The following theorem draw the inheritance property of this class.
Theorem 5**.**
In a doubly warped product manifold where is of class type , the factor manifold is of class type if and only if
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Proof.
Assume that be a doubly warped product manifold of class type . Then
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Using equation (3.2), it is
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and consequently, one has
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which completes the proof. ∎
3.6. Class
This class is identified by having a constant scalar curvature. Let be a doubly warped product manifold of class type , that is, the scalar curvature of is constant, say . The use of Equation 7 in [18] implies that is of class if there are two constants and such that
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where .
4. Einstein-like doubly warped Relativistic space-times
Let be a Riemannian manifold, and are smooth functions. The manifold furnished with the metric tensor is called a doubly warped space-time. For the covariant derivative on is given by
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whereas the Ricci tensor on is given by
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For the definition and relativistic significance of doubly warped space-times, the reader is referred to [15, 32] and references therein.
Theorem 6**.**
In a doubly warped space-time of class type , is an Einstein-like manifold of class type if and only if
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Theorem 7**.**
In a doubly warped space-time of class type , is an Einstein-like manifold of class type if and only if
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Theorem 8**.**
In a doubly warped space-time of class type , is an Einstein-like manifold of class type if and only if
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