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A note on closed vector fields
AIMS Mathematics 2024, 9(1): 1509-1522
Published: 15 January 2024
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Special vector fields, such as conformal vector fields and Killing vector fields, are commonly used in studying the geometry of a Riemannian manifold. Though there are Riemannian manifolds, which do not admit certain conformal vector fields or certain Killing vector fields, respectively. Closed vector fields exist in abundance on each Riemannian manifold. In this paper, we used closed vector fields to study the geometry of the Riemannian manifold. In the first result, we showed that a compact Riemannian manifold ( M n , g ) admits a closed vector field ω with d i v ω non-constant and an eigenvector of the rough Laplace operator, the integral of the Ricci curvature R i c ( ω , ω ) has a suitable lower bound that is necessarily isometric to S n ( c ) and that the converse holds. In the other result, we found a characterization of an Euclidean space using a closed vector field ω with non-constant length that annihilates the rough Laplace operator and squared length of its covariant derivative that has a suitable upper bound. Finally, we used the closed vector field provided by the gradient of the non-trivial solution of the Fischer-Marsden equation on a complete and simply connected Riemannian manifold ( M , g ) and showed that it is necessary and sufficient for ( M , g ) to be isometric to a sphere and that the squared length of the covariant derivative of this closed vector field has a suitable upper bound.

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On eigenfunctions corresponding to first non-zero eigenvalue of the sphere Sn(c) on a Riemannian manifold
AIMS Mathematics 2024, 9(12): 34272-34288
Published: 15 December 2024
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We recall classical themes such as "on hearing the shape of a drum" or "can one hear the shape of a drum?", and the discovery of Milnor, who constructed two flat tori which are isospectral but not isometric. In this article, we consider the question of finding conditions under which an n-dimensional closed Riemannian manifold (Mn,g) having a non-zero eigenvalue nc for a positive constant c (that is, has same non-zero eigenvalue as first non-zero eigenvalue of the sphere Sn(c)), is isometric to Sn(c). We address this issue in two situations. First, we consider the compact (Mn,g) as the hypersurface of the Euclidean space (Rn+1,,) with isometric immersion f:(Mn,g) (Rn+1,,) and a constant unit vector a such that the function ρ=f,a satisfying Δρ=ncρ for a positive constant c is isometric to Sn(c) if and only if (Mn,g) is isometric to Sn(c) provided the integral of Ricci curvature Ric(ρ,ρ) has an appropriate lower bound. In the second situation, we consider that the compact (Mn,g) admits a non-trivial concircular vector field ξ with potential function σ satisfying Δσ=ncσ for a positive constant c and a specific function f related to ξ (called circular function) is constant along the integral curves of ξ if and only if (Mn,g) is isometric to Sn(c).

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