• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.1255-1265
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• 2009

We show that the Riemannian geometry of a tangent sphere bundle of a Riemannian manifold (M, g) of constant radius $\gamma$ reduces essentially to the one of unit tangent sphere bundle of a Riemannian manifold equipped with the respective induced Sasaki metrics. Further, we provide some applications of this theorem on the $\eta$-Einstein tangent sphere bundles and certain related topics to the tangent sphere bundles.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.1233-1247
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• 2023

The aim of the present paper is to study complete lifts of a semi-symmetric non-metric connection from a Riemannian manifold to its tangent bundles. Some curvature properties of a Riemannian manifold to its tangent bundles with respect to such a connection have been investigated.

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.609-617
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• 2019

We characterize two-point homogeneous spaces M by means of the structural operator $h={\frac{1}{2}}{\mathcal{L}}_{\xi}{\phi}$ or the characteristic Jacobi operator ${\ell}=R({\cdot},{\xi}){\xi}$ on the unit tangent sphere bundles $T_1M$.

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.811-819
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• 2020

We give characterizations of locally symmetric spaces M via the structural operator $h={\frac{1}{2}{\mathcal{L}}_{\xi}{\phi}}$ or the characteristic Jacobi operator ℓ = R(·, ξ)ξ on the unit tangent sphere bundles T1M.

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.375-384
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• 2016

In this paper, we study the pseudo-symmetry of unit tangent sphere bundle. We prove that if the unit tangent sphere bundle $T_1M$ with standard contact metric structure over a locally symmetric $M^n$, $n{\geq}3$ is pseudo-symmetric, then M is of constant curvature.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.1019-1035
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• 2020

In this paper, we introduce the deformed-Sasaki metric on the tangent bundle TM over an m-dimensional Riemannian manifold (M, g), as a new natural metric on TM. We establish a necessary and sufficient conditions under which a vector field is harmonic with respect to the deformed-Sasaki Metric. We also construct some examples of harmonic vector fields.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.1035-1047
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• 2004

In this paper, we study the unit tangent sphere bundles T$_1$M(4c) of complex space forms M(4c) with constant holomorphic sectional curvature 4c. In particular, we determine T$_1$M(4c) whose Ricci tensors satisfy the Einstein-like conditions.

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.805-812
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• 2014

For unit tangent sphere bundles $T_1M$ with the standard contact metric structure (${\eta},\bar{g},{\phi},{\xi}$), we have two fundamental operators that is, $h=\frac{1}{2}{\pounds}_{\xi}{\phi}$ and ${\ell}=\bar{R}({\cdot},{\xi}){\xi}$, where ${\pounds}_{\xi}$ denotes Lie differentiation for the Reeb vector field ${\xi}$ and $\bar{R}$ denotes the Riemmannian curvature tensor of $T_1M$. In this paper, we study the Reeb ow invariancy of the corresponding (0, 2)-tensor fields H and L of h and ${\ell}$, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.959-1008
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• 1999

This paper considers foundational issues related to connections in the tangent bundle of a manifold. The approach makes use of second order tangent vectors, i.e., vectors tangent to the tangent bundle. The resulting second order tangent bundle has certain properties, above and beyond those of a typical tangent bundle. In particular, it has a natural secondary vector bundle structure and a canonical involution that interchanges the two structures. The involution provides a nice way to understand the torsion of a connection. The latter parts of the paper deal with the Levi-Civita connection of a Riemannian manifold. The idea is to get at the connection by first finding its.spary. This is a second order vector field that encodes the second order differential equation for geodesics. The paper also develops some machinery involving lifts of vector fields form a manifold to its tangent bundle and uses a variational approach to produce the Riemannian spray.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.329-340
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• 2011

We shall give some curvature conditions for the unit tangent sphere bundle of an n($\geq$ 4)-dimensional Riemannian manifold to be H-contact. Furthermore, we provide an example illustrating Main Theorem.