• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.198-214
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• 2023

In the present paper, we investigate homothetic motions determined by quaternions, which is a general form of our previous paper [20]. We introduce a transition between homothetic motions in 3D and 4D Euclidean and Lorentzian spaces. In other words, we give a new method that works as a handy tool for obtaining Lorentzian homothetic motions from Euclidean homothetic motions. Moreover, some remarkable properties of homothetic motions, which are given in former studies on this subject, are also examined by dual transformations. Then, we present applications and visualize them with 3D-plots. Finally, we investigate homothetic motions in dual spaces because of the importance in many fields related to kinematics.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.81-99
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• 2006

We investigate a curvature-like tensor defined by (3.1) in Sasakian manifold of $dimension{\geq}$ 5, and show that this tensor satisfies some properties. Especially, we determine compact Sasakian manifolds with vanishing this tensor and improve some theorems concerning contact conformal curvature tensor and spectrum of Laplacian acting on $p(0{\leq}P{\leq}2)-forms$ on the manifold by using this tensor component.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.133-142
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• 1990

In this paper, we define a new tensor field on a Sasqakian manifold, which is constructed from the conformal curvature tensor field by using the Boothby-Wang's fibration ([3]), and study some properties of this new tensor field. In Section 2, we recall definitions and fundamental properties of Sasakian manifold and .phi.-holomorphic sectional curvature. In Section 3, we define contact conformal curvature tensor field on a Sasakian manifold and prove that it is invariant under D-homothetic deformation due to S. Tanno([13]). In Section 4, we study Sasakian manifolds with vanishing contact conformal curvature tensor field, and the last Section 5 is devoted to studying some properties of fibred Riemannian spaces with Sasakian structure of vanishing contact conformal curvature tensor field.