Lie groups as 3-dimensional almost paracontact almost paracomplex Riemannian manifolds
Mancho Manev, Veselina Tavkova

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This paper explores 3-dimensional Lie groups equipped with almost paracontact almost paracomplex Riemannian structures, analyzing their curvature properties and providing explicit examples to illustrate the theoretical findings.
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It constructs and studies 3D Lie group manifolds with these structures, offering new insights into their geometric properties and curvature characteristics.
Findings
Curvature properties of the constructed manifolds are characterized.
Explicit examples support the theoretical analysis.
New class of Lie group manifolds with these structures is introduced.
Abstract
Almost paracontact almost paracomplex Riemannian manifolds of the lowest dimension 3 are considered. Such structures are constructed on a family of Lie groups and the obtained manifolds are studied. Curvature properties of these manifolds are investigated. An example is commented as support of obtained results.
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Lie Groups as 3-Dimensional Almost Paracontact Almost
Paracomplex Riemannian Manifolds
Mancho Manev
University of Plovdiv Paisii Hilendarski, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Department of Algebra and Geometry, 24 Tzar Asen St., 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria;
Medical University of Plovdiv, Faculty of Public Health, Department of Medical Informatics, Biostatistics and E-Learning, 15-A Vasil Aprilov Blvd., 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
and
Veselina Tavkova
University of Plovdiv Paisii Hilendarski, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Department of Algebra and Geometry, 24 Tzar Asen St., 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Abstract.
Almost paracontact almost paracomplex Riemannian manifolds of the lowest dimension 3 are considered. Such structures are constructed on a family of Lie groups and the obtained manifolds are studied. Curvature properties of these manifolds are investigated. An example is commented as support of obtained results.
Key words and phrases:
Almost paracontact structure, almost paracomplex structure, Riemannian metric, Lie group, Lie algebra, curvature properties
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification:
53C15, 53C25
Introduction
The object of our considerations is geometry of the so-called almost paracontact almost paracomplex Riemannian manifolds. The restriction of the introduced almost paracontact structure on the paracontact distribution is an almost paracomplex structure. The more popular case is when the compatible metric with the almost paracontact structure is Riemannian, although the metric can be also indefinite.
Most generally, the notion of almost paracontact structure on a differentiable manifold of arbitrary dimension was introduced by I. Sato [21]. The restriction of this structure on the paracontact distribution is an almost product structure classified by A.M. Naveira [17].
The almost paracontact structure is an analogue of almost contact structure although almost contact manifolds are necessarily odd-dimensional whereas almost paracontact manifolds could be even-dimensional as well.
More close analogue of an almost complex structure for the considered manifolds is the case when the induced almost product structure is traceless. Then such a structure is called almost paracomplex structure. These manifolds are called almost paracontact almost paracomplex manifolds [15]. They have dimension and are classified under the name of almost paracontact Riemannian manifolds of type by M. Manev and M. Staikova in [14].
A number of authors have studied Lie groups as manifolds equipped with various tensor structures and metrics that are compatible with the structures (including in the lowest-dimensional cases) – for example, [3] and [4] for almost contact metric manifolds, [13] and [10] for almost contact B-metric manifolds, [1] and [6] for almost complex manifolds with Hermitian metric, [8] and [24] for almost complex manifolds with Norden metric, [2] and [5] for hypercomplex hyper-Hermitian manifolds, [7] and [12] for almost hypercomplex Hermitian-Norden manifolds, [9] and [22] for Riemannian almost product manifolds, [16] and [25] for almost paracontact metric manifolds.
The goal of the present work is to study the geometric characteristics and properties of a family of Lie groups considered as 3-dimensional almost paracontact almost paracomplex Riemannian manifolds. The expected results will provide a series of explicit examples of the manifolds studied and will contribute to understanding of their geometry.
The paper is organized as follows. In Sect. 1 we give some preliminary facts and definitions for the studied manifolds. In Sect. 2 we construct and characterize a family of 3-dimensional Lie groups considered as almost paracontact almost paracomplex Riemannian manifolds. In Sect. 3 we give an example in relation with the above investigations.
1. Preliminaries
1.1. Structures of almost paracontact almost paracomplex Riemannian manifolds
Let be an almost paracontact almost paracomplex manifold, i.e. is a -dimensional differentiable manifold with an almost paracontact structure consisting of a tensor field of type on the tangent bundle of , a vector field and an 1-form , satisfying the following conditions:
[TABLE]
where is the identity on [21].
Moreover, admits a Riemannian metric which is compatible with the structure of the manifold by the following way:
[TABLE]
Then is called an almost paracontact almost paracomplex Riemannian manifold [15].
Here and further , , , will stand for arbitrary elements of the Lie algebra of tangent vector fields on or vectors in the tangent space at .
Let us recall that the endomorphism induces an almost paracomplex structure on each fibre of the -dimensional paracontact distribution of . Furthermore, an almost paracomplex structure is an almost product structure (i.e. and ) such that the eigenvalues and of have one and the same multiplicity , i.e. follows.
The associated metric of on is defined by the equality . Obviously, it is a compatible metric for , i.e. relations (2) are valid for and , as well as it is a pseudo-Riemannian metric of signature . Therefore, is an almost paracontact almost paracomplex pseudo-Riemannian manifold.
According to [15], the decomposition due to (1) generates the projectors and on any tangent space of , determined by and . Then, it is obtained the orthogonal decomposition . Moreover, it generates the corresponding orthogonal decomposition of the space of the -tensors over as follows:
[TABLE]
[TABLE]
Thus, for , we have:
[TABLE]
1.2. Curvatures of the considered manifolds
The curvature tensor of type for the Levi-Civita connection of is determined as usually by . The corresponding -tensor is denoted by the same letter and it is defined by . With respect to an arbitrary basis, the Ricci tensor and the scalar curvature for as well as their associated quantities are determined by:
[TABLE]
Further, we use the Kulkarni-Nomizu product of two (0,2)-tensors and defined by
[TABLE]
Moreover, has the basic properties of if and only if and are symmetric.
Let be a non-degenerate 2-plane in , , having a basis . The sectional curvature with respect to and is determined by
[TABLE]
It is known that a 2-plane is called a -holomorphic section (respectively, a -section) if (respectively, ).
Let us recall that on each 3-dimensional manifold the curvature tensor has the following form:
[TABLE]
As it is known, a manifold is called Einstein if the Ricci tensor is proportional to the metric tensor, i.e. , .
For the manifolds studied , besides the metric , we also have its associated metric and their component according to (3). Then, it is reasonable to consider the following more general case of the Einstein property, similarly to [13] for almost contact B-metric manifolds. An almost paracontact almost paracomplex Riemannian manifold is called -paracomplex-Einstein when the following condition is valid
[TABLE]
In particular, if then is called para--Einstein.
For almost paracontact metric manifolds, there is no an associated metric and thus the para--Einstein kind is only applicable. In this regard, several authors consider Sasakian and paracontact metric manifolds satisfying the para--Einstein condition and corresponding properties are well studied, e.g. [18], [23], [20].
In the present paper, we consider also the Einstein condition for the manifolds regarding the separate components of the metrics, according to (3).
A para--Einstein manifold is said to be an -para--Einstein manifold () when the condition , , is satisfied. Similarly, there are meaningful respective notions regarding .
1.3. Basic classes of the considered manifolds
In [14], it is given a classification of almost paracontact almost paracomplex Riemannian manifolds consisting of eleven basic classes , , , . It is made with respect to the tensor of type (0,3) defined by
[TABLE]
The basic properties of with respect to the structure are the following:
[TABLE]
Let is a basis of the tangent space at an arbitrary point . The components of the inverse matrix of are denoted by , then the Lee 1-forms , , associated with are defined by:
[TABLE]
The intersection of the basic classes is the special class determined by the condition and it is known as the class with -parallel structures, i.e. .
In [14], there are given the conditions for determining the basic classes of , whereas the components of corresponding to are known from [15]. Namely, the manifold belongs to if and only if the equality is valid. In the latter case, is also called an -manifold.
Moreover, a studied manifold belongs to a direct sum of two or more basic classes, i.e. , if and only if is the sum of the corresponding components , , , i.e. the following condition is satisfied .
In the present paper, we consider the case of the lowest dimension of the manifolds under study, i.e. .
Then, the basic classes of the 3-dimensional manifolds of the considered type are , , , , , , , i.e. , , , are restricted to [15].
Let be a -basis of , therefore it is an orthonormal basis with respect to , i.e. for all . We denote the components of , , and with respect to this -basis as follows
[TABLE]
In the final part of the present section we recall the needed results from [15].
The components of the Lee forms with respect to the -basis are:
[TABLE]
Further, if are the components of in the corresponding basic classes , we have:
[TABLE]
where , , are arbitrary vectors in , .
2. Lie groups as 3-dimensional manifolds of the studied type
Let be a 3-dimensional real connected Lie group and be its Lie algebra. If is a basis of left invariant vector fields on then an almost paracontact almost paracomplex structure and a Riemannian metric can be determined by the following way:
[TABLE]
[TABLE]
Thus, we obtain the manifold . Obviously, we have the following
Proposition 2.1**.**
The manifold is a 3-dimensional almost paracontact almost paracomplex Riemannian manifold.
Further, the denotation stands for this manifold.
The corresponding Lie algebra is defined by:
[TABLE]
From the nine commutation coefficients , using the Jacobi identity
[TABLE]
remain six which could be chosen as parameters. So, we express the three coefficients with different indices by the six parameters (if the denominators are non-zero) as follows:
[TABLE]
Using the known property of the Levi-Civita connection of
[TABLE]
we get the following formula for the ’s components , :
[TABLE]
Then, we have the following equations:
[TABLE]
and the other components are zero.
Hence, we obtain the following equalities for the Lee forms:
[TABLE]
Theorem 2.2**.**
The manifold belongs to the basic class () if and only if the corresponding Lie algebra is determined by the following commutators:
[TABLE]
where , are arbitrary real parameters. Moreover, the relations of and with the non-zero components in the different basic classes from (6) are as follows:
[TABLE]
Proof.
The calculations are made, using (5), (6), (11) and (12). ∎
Let us remark that the class of the para-Sasakian paracomplex Riemannian manifolds is , where is the subclass of determined by the condition [15].
Then, due to Theorem 2.2, we have the following
Corollary 2.3**.**
The manifold is para-Sasakian if and only if the corresponding Lie algebra is determined by the following commutators:
[TABLE]
Let us note that an -manifold is obtained if and only if the Lie algebra is Abelian, i.e. all commutators are zero. Further, we skip this special case.
2.1. Some special structures on the considered manifolds
A metric is called Killing (or, -invariant) if satisfying the property
[TABLE]
Theorem 2.4**.**
The metric of is Killing if and only if belongs to the subclass of determined by the condition .
Proof.
According to (8), (9) and (13), we establish that is Killing if and only if the equalities
[TABLE]
are valid. Then, using (11) and (12), we obtain the following equalities
[TABLE]
and . Therefore, by virtue of (6), we get
[TABLE]
Vice versa, let the latter equalities be satisfied. Then, applying (6) and (11) to them, we deduce (14) and (15). Therefore, is Killing. ∎
Similarly, the metric is Killing if (13) is satisfied for , i.e. holds.
Theorem 2.5**.**
The associated metric of is Killing if and only if belongs to the subclass of determined by the condition .
Proof.
It is analogous to the proof of the previous theorem as equalities (14), (15), (16) are replaced respectively by
[TABLE]
[TABLE]
[TABLE]
∎
The structure is called bi-invariant, if is true.
Theorem 2.6**.**
The structure of is bi-invariant if and only if belongs to the subclass of determined by the condition .
Proof.
By a similar way, using (6), (9), (11) and (12), we establish that the definition condition for a bi-invariant endomorphism is satisfied if and only if we have
[TABLE]
Thus, bearing in mind (6), we obtain the following
[TABLE]
∎
It is known that is a Killing vector field when the Lie derivatite of along vanishes, i.e. . According to [15], of dimension belongs to or to their direct sums. Then, it is easy to conclude the truthfulness of the following
Theorem 2.7**.**
The vestor field of is Killing if and only if belongs to , , or to their direct sums.
2.2. Curvature properties of the constructed manifolds
Using (10) and Theorem 2.2, we obtain the components of as follows:
[TABLE]
and the other components are zero.
Then, we have the following
Theorem 2.8**.**
Let belong to a basic class , . If , is flat, whereas if , is flat if and only if it is an -manifold. In the latter case the manifold has the following non-zero components of , , and the non-zero values of , , :
[TABLE]
Proof.
The latter equations are obtained by direct computation of the basic components , , and the values of , , , using Theorem 2.2 and (17). ∎
Let us remark that in an arbitrary tangent space of with the basis defined by (7) and (8), we have two basic -sections , and one basic -holomorphic section .
By virtue to Theorem 2.8, we establish the truthfullness of the following
Theorem 2.9**.**
Let be a non-flat -manifold, i.e. . Then we have the following characteristics:
- (1)
The -manifolds () have a curvature tensor of the same form; 2. (2)
Every -manifold has the property ; 3. (3)
Every -manifold has a positive scalar curvature; 4. (4)
Every -manifold () has a negative scalar curvature; 5. (5)
Every -manifold (*) is -scalar flat; * 6. (6)
An -manifold is -Ricci flat if and only if it is -scalar flat; 7. (7)
An -manifold is -scalar flat if and only if , ; 8. (8)
An -manifold has a positive (resp., negative) -scalar curvature if and only if (resp., ); 9. (9)
Every -manifold has vanishing sectional curvatures of the basic -sections; 10. (10)
Every -manifold has positive sectional curvatures of the basic -sections; 11. (11)
Every -manifold () has negative sectional curvatures of the basic -sections; 12. (12)
Every -manifold has a vanishing scalar curvature of the basic -holomorphic section; 13. (13)
Every -manifold () has a positive scalar curvature of the basic -holomorphic section; 14. (14)
Every -manifold () has a negative scalar curvature of the basic -holomorphic section.
Using Theorem 2.8, we obtain immediately the following
Corollary 2.10**.**
The form of the Ricci tensor on in the corresponding basic class is:
[TABLE]
where .
Bearing in mind Corollary 2.10 and formula (4), we obtain the following
Corollary 2.11**.**
The form of the curvature tensor on in the corresponding basic class is:
[TABLE]
By virtue to Corollary 2.10, we obtain the truthfulness of the following
Proposition 2.12**.**
The manifold is:
- (1)
para--Einstein if it belongs to , , , , or to their direct sums; 2. (2)
-para--Einstein if it belongs to ; 3. (3)
-para--Einstein if it belongs to , , or to their direct sums; 4. (4)
Einstein if it belongs to ;
Corollary 2.13**.**
The para-Sasakian manifold is -para--Einstein.
3. An example of a Lie group as a 3-dimensional manifold of the studied type
In [15], an example of an almost paracontact almost paracomplex Riemannian manifold of arbitrary odd dimension is given. It is constructed as a family of Lie groups equipped with the studied tensor structure. Furthermore, certain characteristics of the obtained manifolds are determined. In the present paper, we consider the 3-dimensional case and we find geometrical characteristics in relation the above investigations.
Let be a 3-dimensional real connected Lie group and be its associated Lie algebra defined by:
[TABLE]
where are real constants and is an ’s global basis of left invariant vector fields on . An almost paracontact almost paracomplex structure is determined by (7) and is a Riemannian metric defined by (8). Thus, because of (1), the induced 3-dimensional is an almost paracontact almost paracomplex Riemannian manifold.
Let us remark, the same Lie group with an appropriate almost contact structure and a compatible Riemannian metric is studied in [19] as an almost cosymplectic manifold. The same Lie group is equipped with an almost contact B-metric structure in [11] and then certain geometric characteristics for the obtained manifold are found. Further, in [13], the case of the lowest dimension is considered and some properties of the constructed manifold are determined.
In [15], we get the following components of :
[TABLE]
and the other components of are zero. Moreover, bearing in mind (6), we obtain for , , i.e. . If , , the manifold belongs to . Particularly, for , i.e. and , the obtained manifold is para-Sasakian. If , , the manifold belongs to .
Now, by virtue of (10), for arbitrary and we obtain:
[TABLE]
and the rest are zero. Then, using the latter equalities, we calculate the basic curvature characteristics and the nonzero of them are the following:
[TABLE]
The latter equalities imply that has negative scalar curvature, negative sectional curvatures of the basic -sections and positive sectional curvature of the basic -holomorphic section. These results support Theorem 2.9 for and .
According to (18), the form of the Ricci tensor is:
[TABLE]
Therefore, is an -para--Einstein manifold, which supports Proposition 2.12 for .
Bearing in mind (4) and (19), we get the following form of the curvature tensor:
[TABLE]
which supports Corollary 2.11.
Acknowledgment
The authors were supported by project MU19-FMI-020 of the Scientific Research Fund, University of Plovdiv Paisii Hilendarski, Bulgaria.
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