Isometric Immersions of Lightlike Warped Product Manifolds

In this paper, we deal with isommetric immersions of globally null warped product manifolds into Lorentzian manifolds with constant curvature c in codimension k≥3. Under the assumptions that the globally null warped product manifold has no points with the same constant sectional curvature c as the Lorentzian ambient, we show that such isometric immersion splits into warped product of isometric immersions.

ON DOUBLY WARPED PRODUCT OF COMPLEX FINSLER MANIFOLDS

Let （M1, F1） and （M2, F2） be two strongly pseudoconvex complex Finsler man- ifolds. The doubly wraped product complex Finsler manifold （f2 M1 x h M2, F） of （M1, F1） and （M2, F2） is the product manifold M1 x M2 endowed with the warped product complex 2 2 Finsler metric F2 = f2F1 ＋ fl F2, where fl and f2 are positive smooth functions on M1 and M2, respectively. In this paper, the most often used complex Finsler connections, holomorphic curvature, Ricci scalar curvature, and real geodesics of the DWP-complex Finsler manifold are derived in terms of the corresponding objects of its components. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the DWP-complex Finsler manifold to be K/ihler Finsler （resp., weakly K/ihler Finsler, complex Berwald, weakly complex Berwald, complex Landsberg） manifold are ob- tained, respectively. It is proved that if （M1, F1） and （M2,F2） are projectively flat, then the DWP-complex Finsler manifold is projectively flat if and only if fl and f2 are positive constants.

f-Harmonic maps of doubly warped product manifolds

In this paper,we study f-harmonicity of some special maps from or into a doubly warped product manifold.First we recall some properties of doubly twisted product manifolds.After showing that the inclusion maps from Riemannian manifolds M and N into the doubly warped product manifold M ×（μ,λ） N can not be proper f-harmonic maps,we use projection maps and product maps to construct nontrivial f-harmonic maps.Thus we obtain some similar results given in [21],such as the conditions for f-harmonicity of projection maps and some characterizations for non-trivial f-harmonicity of the special product maps.Furthermore,we investigate non-trivial f-harmonicity of the product of two harmonic maps.

GENERIC WARPED PRODUCT SUBMANIFOLDS OF LOCALLY CONFORMAL KEAHLER MANIFOLDS

Warped product manifolds are known to have applications in physics. For instance, they provide an excellent setting to model space-time near a black hole or a massive star （cf. [9]）. The studies on warped product manifolds with extrinsic geometric point of view were intensified after the B.Y. Chen＇s work on CR-warped product submanifolds of Kaehler manifolds （cf. [6], [7]）. Later on, similar studies were carried out in the setting of 1.c.K. manifolds and nearly Kaehler manifolds （el. [3], [11]）. In the present article, we investigate a larger class of warped product submanifolds of 1.c.K. manifolds, ensure their existence by constructing an example of such manifolds and obtain some important properties of these submanifolds. With regard to the CR-warped product submanifold, a special case of generic warped product submanifolds, we obtain a characterization under which a CR-submanifold is reducesd to a CR-warped product submanifold.

Conformal Vector Fields on Finsler Warped Product Manifolds

In this paper,we study the conformal vector fields on Finsler warped product manifolds.We obtain a system of equivalent equations that the conformal vector fields on Finsler warped product manifolds satisfy and completely characterize conformal vector fields on such manifolds.Further,by solving the equation,we give the classification.And we also give some examples.

Finsler warped product metrics with special Riemannian curvature properties

One of the fundamental problems in Finsler geometry is to study Finsler metrics of constant(or scalar)curvature.In this paper,we refine and improve Chen-Shen-Zhao equations characterizing Finsler warped product metrics of scalar flag curvature.In particular,we find equations that characterize Finsler warped product metrics of constant flag curvature.Then we improve the Chen-Shen-Zhao result on characterizing Einstein Finsler warped product metrics.As its application we construct explicitly many new warped product Douglas metrics of constant Ricci curvature by using known locally projectively flat spherically symmetric metrics of constant flag curvature.

S-curvature of Doubly Warped Product of Finsler Manifolds

Doubly warped product of Finsler manifolds is useful in theoretical physics,particularly in general relativity.In this paper,we study doubly warped product of Finsler manifolds with isotropic mean Berwald curvature or weak isotropic S-curvature.

Isometric Immersions into Warped Product Spaces

This paper concerns the submanifold geometry in the ambient space of warped productmanifolds F^n×σ R, this is a large family of manifolds including the usual space forms R^m, S^m and H^m. We give the fundamental theorem for isometric immersions of hypersurfaces into warped product space R^n×σ R, which extends this kind of results from the space forms and several spaces recently considered by Daniel to the cases of infinitely many ambient spaces.

Characterizations of umbilic hypersurfaces in warped product manifolds

We consider the closed orientable hypersurfaces in a wide class of warped product manifolds, which include space forms, deSitter-Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordström manifolds. By using an integral formula or Brendle’s Heintze-Karcher type inequality, we present some new characterizations of umbilic hypersurfaces. These results can be viewed as generalizations of the classical Jellet-Liebmann theorem and the Alexandrov theorem in Euclidean space.

CONFORMALLY FLAT AFFINE HYPERSURFACES WITH SEMI-PARALLEL CUBIC FORM

In this paper,we study locally strongly convex affine hypersurfaces with the vanishing Weyl curvature tensor and semi-parallel cubic form relative to the Levi-Civita connection of the affine metric.As a main result,we classify these hypersurfaces as not being of a flat affine metric.In particular,2 and 3-dimensional locally strongly convex affine hypersurfaces with semi-parallel cubic forms are completely determined.

A Note on Obata’s Rigidity Theorem

In this note we present various extensions of Obata’s rigidity theorem concerning the Hessian of a function on a Riemannian manifold.They include general rigidity theorems for the generalized Obata equation,and hyperbolic and Euclidean analogs of Obata’s theorem.Besides analyzing the full rigidity case,we also characterize the geometry and topology of the underlying manifold in more general situations.

A global weak solution to the Lorentzian harmonic map flow

We investigate a parabolic-elliptic system which is related to a harmonic map from a compact Riemann surface with a smooth boundary into a Lorentzian manifold with a warped product metric.We prove that there exists a unique global weak solution for this system which is regular except for at most finitely many singular points.

Conformally flat, minimal, Lagrangian submanifolds in complex space forms

We investigate n-dimensional(n≥4),conformally flat,minimal,Lagrangian submanifolds of the n-dimensional complex space form in terms of the multiplicities of the eigenvalues of the Schouten tensor and classify those that admit at most one eigenvalue of multiplicity one.In the case where the ambient space is Cn,the quasi umbilical case was studied in Blair(2007).However,the classification there is not complete and several examples are missing.Here,we complete(and extend) the classification and we also deal with the case where the ambient complex space form has non-vanishing holomorphic sectional curvature.

Characterization of the Generalized Calabi Composition of Affine Hyperspheres

In this paper, continuing with Hu-Li Vrancken and the recent work of Antid Dillen- Schoels-Vrancken, we obtain a decomposition theorem which settled the problem of how to determine whether a given locally strongly convex aitine hypersurface can be decomposed as a generalized Calabi composition of two affine hyperspheres, based on the properties of its difference tensor K and its affine shape operator S.

Nonexistence of the Quasi-harmonic Spheres and Harmonic Spheres into Certain Manifold

We mainly study the nonexistence of quasi-harmonic spheres and harmonic spheres into spheres of any dimension which omits a neighbourhood of totally geodesic submanifold of co-dimension 2.We will show that such target admits no quasi-harmonic spheres and harmonic spheres.