• 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.53 no.4
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• pp.1087-1094
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• 2016

On a compact n-dimensional manifold M, it has been conjectured that a critical point of the total scalar curvature, restricted to the space of metrics with constant scalar curvature of unit volume, is Einstein. In this paper, after derivng an interesting curvature identity, we show that the conjecture is true in dimension three and four when g is weakly Einstein. In higher dimensional case $n{\geq}5$, we also show that the conjecture is true under an additional Ricci curvature bound. Moreover, we prove that the manifold is isometric to a standard n-sphere when it is n-dimensional weakly Einstein and the kernel of the linearized scalar curvature operator is nontrivial.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.55 no.1
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• pp.149-156
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• 2015

We analyze the $(LCS)_n$-manifolds endowed with some symmetric properties, focusing on Ricci tensor and the 1-form ${\gamma}$. We study some properties of special Weakly Ricci-Symmetric $(LCS)_n$-manifolds and also shown that Weakly ${\phi}$-Ricci Symmetric $(LCS)_n$-manifold is an ${\eta}$-Einstein manifold.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.1249-1260
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• 2023

In the present paper, we study a semi-symmetric recurrent metric connection and verify its various geometric properties.