• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.62 no.3
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• pp.485-495
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• 2022

The aim of this paper is to characterize K-contact and Sasakian manifolds whose metrics are generalized quasi-Einstein metric. It is proven that if the metric of a K-contact manifold is generalized quasi-Einstein metric, then the manifold is of constant scalar curvature and in the case of a Sasakian manifold the metric becomes Einstein under certain restriction on the potential function. Several corollaries have been provided. Finally, we consider Sasakian 3-manifold whose metric is generalized quasi-Einstein metric.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.613-623
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• 2020

The notion of quasi-Einstein metric in theoretical physics and in relation with string theory is equivalent to the notion of Ricci soliton in differential geometry. Quasi-Einstein metrics or Ricci solitons serve also as solution to Ricci flow equation, which is an evolution equation for Riemannian metrics on a Riemannian manifold. Quasi-Einstein metrics are subject of great interest in both mathematics and theoretical physics. In this paper the notion of Ricci 𝜌-soliton as a generalization of Ricci soliton is defined. We are motivated by the Ricci-Bourguignon flow to define this concept. We show that if a 3-dimensional almost Kenmotsu Einstein manifold M is a 𝜌-soliton, then M is a Kenmotsu manifold of constant sectional curvature -1 and the 𝜌-soliton is expanding with λ = 2.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.641-648
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• 2000

It has been conjectured that, on a compact 3-dimensional manifold, a critical point of the total scalar curvature functional restricted to the space of constant scalar curvature metrics of volume 1 is Einstein. In this paper we find a sufficient condition that a critical point is Einstein. This condition is equivalent for a critical point ot be conformally flat. Its relationship with the Fisher-Marsden conjecture is also discussed.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.57 no.6
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• pp.1367-1382
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• 2020

We study rigidity results for the Einstein metrics as the critical points of a family of known quadratic curvature functionals involving the scalar curvature, the Ricci curvature and the Riemannian curvature tensor, characterized by some pointwise inequalities involving the Weyl curvature and the traceless Ricci curvature. Moreover, we also provide a few rigidity results for locally conformally flat critical metrics.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.57 no.3
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• pp.707-719
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• 2020

In this article we study almost contact manifolds admitting weakly Einstein metrics. We first prove that if a (2n + 1)-dimensional Sasakian manifold admits a weakly Einstein metric, then its scalar curvature s satisfies -6 ⩽ s ⩽ 6 for n = 1 and -2n(2n + 1) ${\frac{4n^2-4n+3}{4n^2-4n-1}}$ ⩽ s ⩽ 2n(2n + 1) for n ⩾ 2. Secondly, for a (2n + 1)-dimensional weakly Einstein contact metric (κ, μ)-manifold with κ < 1, we prove that it is flat or is locally isomorphic to the Lie group SU(2), SL(2), or E(1, 1) for n = 1 and that for n ⩾ 2 there are no weakly Einstein metrics on contact metric (κ, μ)-manifolds with 0 < κ < 1. For κ < 0, we get a classification of weakly Einstein contact metric (κ, μ)-manifolds. Finally, it is proved that a weakly Einstein almost cosymplectic (κ, μ)-manifold with κ < 0 is locally isomorphic to a solvable non-nilpotent Lie group.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.63 no.4
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• pp.611-622
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• 2023

In this paper, we prove that every weakly Einstein slope metric, which is conformally flat on a manifold M of dimension n ≥ 3, is either a locally Minkowski metric or a Riemannian metric. We also prove the same result for conformally flat weakly Einstein Kropina metrics.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.56 no.5
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• pp.1219-1233
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• 2019

Let $E{\rightarrow}M$ be an arbitrary vector bundle of rank k over a Riemannian manifold M equipped with a fiber metric and a compatible connection $D^E$. R. Albuquerque constructed a general class of (two-weights) spherically symmetric metrics on E. In this paper, we give a characterization of locally symmetric spherically symmetric metrics on E in the case when $D^E$ is flat. We study also the Einstein property on E proving, among other results, that if $k{\geq}2$ and the base manifold is Einstein with positive constant scalar curvature, then there is a 1-parameter family of Einstein spherically symmetric metrics on E, which are not Ricci-flat.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.421-431
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• 1998

We characterize real 4-dimensional Kahler metrices which are critical for natural quadratic Riemannian functionals defined on the space of all Riemannian metrics. In particular we show that such critical Kahler surfaces are either Einstein or have zero scalar curvature. We also make some discussion on criticality in the space of Kahler metrics.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.235-243
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• 2002

In this paper, we get conditions for the natural projections of some product manifolds with varying metrics of two Riemannian manifolds to be harmonic, and necessary and sufficient conditions for some product manifolds with the harmonic natural projections of two Einstein manifolds to be Einstein manifolds.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.85-90
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• 2000

On Riemannian manifolds of dimension 4 the Einstein condition is equivalent to the Thorpe condition. In this paper, we construct a few metrics which we Einstein but not Thorpe, and vice versa in dimensions larger than 4.