Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4606233 | Differential Geometry and its Applications | 2012 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
We find all the general natural metrics and all the natural diagonal metrics on TM with respect to which any (non)linear connection on a (pseudo)-Riemannian manifold (M,g)(M,g) (viewed as an almost product structure on TM) is harmonic. Moreover, we give necessary and sufficient conditions such that the Levi-Civita connection of g , the (non)linear connections on (M,g)(M,g), and some special (1,1)(1,1)-tensor fields on TM are harmonic with respect to any general natural metric G . We also study the harmonicity of these connections and of several (1,1)(1,1)-tensor fields with respect to the natural diagonal metrics, and in particular, we obtain that the Levi-Civita connection of g is harmonic with respect to the Sasaki metric on TM.
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Authors
Cornelia-Livia Bejan, Simona-Luiza Druţă-Romaniuc,