Mathematics, Vol. 11, Pages 4377: Weak Nearly Sasakian and Weak Nearly Cosymplectic Manifolds

Mathematics, Vol. 11, Pages 4377: Weak Nearly Sasakian and Weak Nearly Cosymplectic Manifolds

Mathematics doi: 10.3390/math11204377

Authors: Vladimir Rovenski

Weak contact metric structures on a smooth manifold, introduced by V. Rovenski and R. Wolak in 2022, have provided new insight into the theory of classical structures. In this paper, we define new structures of this kind (called weak nearly Sasakian and weak nearly cosymplectic and nearly Kähler structures), study their geometry and give applications to Killing vector fields. We introduce weak nearly Kähler manifolds (generalizing nearly Kähler manifolds), characterize weak nearly Sasakian and weak nearly cosymplectic hypersurfaces in such Riemannian manifolds and prove that a weak nearly cosymplectic manifold with parallel Reeb vector field is locally the Riemannian product of a real line and a weak nearly Kähler manifold.