Prescribed Angle Surfaces Associated with Torse-Forming Vector Fields in Riemannian Manifolds

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce the notion of a prescribed angle hypersurface in a Riemannian manifold associated with a pair $(\mathcal{V},\theta)$, where $\mathcal{V}$ is a unit vector field along the hypersurface and $\theta$ denotes the angle between $\mathcal{V}$ and the unit normal vector field of the hypersurface. We study such hypersurfaces in case $\mathcal{V}$ is a torse-forming vector field. In the particular $3$-dimensional case, we determine the intrinsic and extrinsic curvatures of these hypersurfaces in terms of the prescribed angle and the potential function of $\mathcal{V}$. Using this, we classify prescribed angle surfaces under suitable assumptions.