Paper ¡ Aug 12, 2025

Characterizations of weak almost -manifolds with curvature properties

Sourav Nayak, Dhriti Sundar Patra, Vladimir Rovenski

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Weak metric structures, introduced by Rovenski and Wolak in 2022, extend Yano's -structure and almost contact metric structure. In this paper, we investigate curvature phenomena of weak almost -manifolds (w.a.-manifolds) focusing on the --nullity condition and its special case . We establish several results that generalize known rigidity theorems for almost -manifolds. First, using the partial Ricci flow, we obtain dynamical characterizations of -manifolds: starting from a w.a.-structure satisfying the curvature condition of -manifolds or the --nullity condition, the flow evolves the structure exponentially fast toward an -structure. This extends results of Cappelletti Montano and Di Terlizzi to the weak metric setting. Next, we identify conditions under which a w.a.-manifold admits a bi-Legendrian structure with totally geodesic foliations. Finally, for w.a.-manifolds with , we prove a splitting theorem in which one factor is flat, generalizing classical results for almost -geometry. These findings have consequences for the theory of Sasakian and - manifolds, the geometry of bi-Legendrian structures, and the behavior of weak metric contact manifolds under curvature constraints.

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