• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.959-1008
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• 1999

This paper considers foundational issues related to connections in the tangent bundle of a manifold. The approach makes use of second order tangent vectors, i.e., vectors tangent to the tangent bundle. The resulting second order tangent bundle has certain properties, above and beyond those of a typical tangent bundle. In particular, it has a natural secondary vector bundle structure and a canonical involution that interchanges the two structures. The involution provides a nice way to understand the torsion of a connection. The latter parts of the paper deal with the Levi-Civita connection of a Riemannian manifold. The idea is to get at the connection by first finding its.spary. This is a second order vector field that encodes the second order differential equation for geodesics. The paper also develops some machinery involving lifts of vector fields form a manifold to its tangent bundle and uses a variational approach to produce the Riemannian spray.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.1255-1265
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• 2009

We show that the Riemannian geometry of a tangent sphere bundle of a Riemannian manifold (M, g) of constant radius $\gamma$ reduces essentially to the one of unit tangent sphere bundle of a Riemannian manifold equipped with the respective induced Sasaki metrics. Further, we provide some applications of this theorem on the $\eta$-Einstein tangent sphere bundles and certain related topics to the tangent sphere bundles.

• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.29-34
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• 2014

Almost contact and almost complex structures in the tangent bundle have been studied by K. Yano and S. Ishihara[5] and others. In the present paper, we have studied Lorentzian almost r-para-contact structure in the tangent bundle. Some results related to Lie-derivative have been studied.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.1255-1267
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• 2020

The class of isotropic almost complex structures, J_𝛿,𝜎, define a class of Riemannian metrics, g_𝛿,𝜎, on the tangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold which are a generalization of the Sasaki metric. This paper characterizes the metrics g_𝛿,0 using the geometry of tangent bundle. As a by-product, some integrability results will be reported for J_𝛿,𝜎.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.63 no.1
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• pp.79-95
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• 2023

In this note, we define a Berger type deformed Sasaki metric as a natural metric on the second tangent bundle of a manifold by means of a biparacomplex structure. First, we obtain the Levi-Civita connection of this metric. Secondly, we get the curvature tensor, sectional curvature, and scalar curvature. Afterwards, we obtain some formulas characterizing the geodesics with respect to the metric on the second tangent bundle. Finally, we present the harmonicity conditions for some maps.

• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.387-396
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• 2017

Our aim is to study covariant derivative with respect to complete and vertical lifts of generalized almost r-contact structure in tangent bundle.

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.483-501
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• 2021

We study the complete lifts of projectable linear connection for semi-tangent bundle. The aim of this study is to establish relations between these and complete lift already known. In addition, the relations between infinitesimal linear transformations and projectable linear connections are studied. We also have a new example for good square in this work.

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.375-384
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• 2016

In this paper, we study the pseudo-symmetry of unit tangent sphere bundle. We prove that if the unit tangent sphere bundle $T_1M$ with standard contact metric structure over a locally symmetric $M^n$, $n{\geq}3$ is pseudo-symmetric, then M is of constant curvature.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.329-340
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• 2011

We shall give some curvature conditions for the unit tangent sphere bundle of an n($\geq$ 4)-dimensional Riemannian manifold to be H-contact. Furthermore, we provide an example illustrating Main Theorem.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.83-86
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• 2007

We determine the largest integer i such that $0 and the coefficient of $t^{i}$ is odd in the polynomial $(1+t+t^{2}+{\cdots}+t^{n})^{n+1}$. We apply this to prove that the co-index of the tangent bundle over $FP^{n}$ is stable if $2^{r}{\leq}n<2^{r}+\frac{1}{3}(2^{r}-2)$ for some integer r.