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Mihaela Pilca

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arXiv2025

Reducible Riemannian manifolds with conformal product structures

We study conformal product structures on compact reducible Riemannian manifolds, and show that under a suitable technical assumption, the underlying Riemannian mani\-folds are either conformally flat, or triple products, \emph{i.e.} locally isometric to Riemannian manifolds of the form $(M,g)$ with $M=M_1\times M_2\times M_3$ and $g=e^{2f}g_1+g_2+g_3$, where $g_i$ is a Riemannian metric on $M_i$, for $i\in\{1,2,3\}$, and $f\in C^\infty(M_1\times M_2)$.

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arXiv2025

Conformal product structures on compact Einstein manifolds

In this note we generalize our previous result, stating that if $(M_1,g_1)$ and $(M_2,g_2)$ are compact Riemannian manifolds, then any Einstein metric on the product $M:=M_1\times M_2$ of the form $g=e^{2f_1}g_1+e^{2f_2}g_2$, with $f_1\in C^\infty(M_2)$ and $f_2\in C^\infty(M_1\times M_2)$, is a warped product metric. Namely, we show that the same conclusion holds if we replace the assumption that the manifold $M$ is globally the product of two compact manifolds by the weaker assumption that $M$ is compact and carries a conformal product structure.

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arXiv2024

Einstein metrics on conformal products

We show that under some natural geometric assumption, Einstein metrics on conformal products of two compact conformal manifolds are warped product metrics.

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arXiv2023

Adapted metrics on locally conformally product manifolds

We show that the Gauduchon metric $g_0$ of a compact locally conformally product manifold $(M,c,D)$ of dimension greater than $2$ is adapted, in the sense that the Lee form of $D$ with respect to $g_0$ vanishes on the $D$-flat distribution of $M$. We also characterize adapted metrics as critical points of a natural functional defined on the conformal class.

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arXiv2021

Conformal vector fields on lcK manifolds

We show that any conformal vector field on a compact lcK manifold is Killing with respect to the Gauduchon metric. Furthermore, we prove that any conformal vector field on a compact lcK manifold whose K\"ahler cover is neither flat, nor hyperk\"ahler, is holomorphic.

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arXiv2020

Metric connections with parallel twistor-free torsion

The torsion of every metric connection on a Riemannian manifold has three components: one totally skew-symmetric, one of vectorial type, and one of twistorial type. In this paper we classify complete simply connected Riemannian manifolds carrying a metric connection whose torsion is parallel, has non-zero vectorial component and vanishing twistorial component.

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arXiv2020

Closed 1-Forms and Twisted Cohomology

We show that the first twisted cohomology group associated to closed 1-forms on compact manifolds is related to certain 2-dimensional representations of the fundamental group. In particular, we construct examples of nowhere-vanishing 1-forms with non-trivial twisted cohomology.

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arXiv2020

An Obata-type characterization of doubly-warped product K\''ahler manifolds

We give a characterization {\sl à la Obata} for certain families of K\''ahler manifolds. These results are in the same line as other extensions of the well-known Obata's rigidity theorem from \cite{Obata62}, like for instance the generalizations in \cite{RanjSant97} and \cite{Santhanam07}. Moreover, we give a complete description of the so-called K\''ahler doubly-warped product structures whose underlying metric is Einstein.

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arXiv2019

LcK structures with holomorphic Lee vector field on Vaisman-type manifolds

We give a complete description of all locally conformally Kähler structures with holomorphic Lee vector field on a compact complex manifold of Vaisman type. This provides in particular examples of such structures whose Lee vector field is not homothetic to the Lee vector field of a Vaisman structure. More generally, dropping the condition of being of Vaisman type, we show that on a compact complex manifold, any lcK metric with potential and with holomorphic Lee vector field admits a potential which is positive and invariant along the anti-Lee vector field.

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arXiv2019

On Weyl-reducible conformal manifolds and lcK structures

A recent result of M. Kourganoff states that if $D$ is a closed, reducible, non-flat, Weyl connection on a compact conformal manifold $M$, then the universal covering of $M$, endowed with the metric whose Levi-Civita covariant derivative is the pull-back of $D$, is isometric to $\mathbb{R}^q\times N$ for some irreducible, incomplete Riemannian manifold $N$. Moreover, he characterized the case where the dimension of $N$ is $2$ by showing that $M$ is then a mapping torus of some Anosov diffeomorphism of $T^{q+1}$. We show that in this case one necessarily has $q=1$ or $q=2$.

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arXiv2016

On toric locally conformally Kähler manifolds

We study compact toric strict locally conformally Kähler manifolds. We show that the Kodaira dimension of the underlying complex manifold is $-\infty$ and that the only compact complex surfaces admitting toric strict locally conformally Kähler metrics are the diagonal Hopf surfaces. We also show that every toric Vaisman manifold has lcK rank 1 and is isomorphic to the mapping torus of an automorphism of a toric compact Sasakian manifold.

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arXiv2016

Conformally related Kähler metrics and the holonomy of lcK manifolds

A locally conformally Kähler (lcK) manifold is a complex manifold $(M,J)$ together with a Hermitian metric $g$ which is conformal to a Kähler metric in the neighbourhood of each point. In this paper we obtain three classification results in locally conformally Kähler geometry. The first one is the classification of conformal classes on compact manifolds containing two non-homothetic Kähler metrics. The second one is the classification of compact Einstein locally conformally Kähler manifolds. The third result is the classification of the possible (restricted) Riemannian holonomy groups of compact locally conformally Kähler manifolds. We show that every locally (but not globally) conformally Kähler compact manifold of dimension $2n$ has holonomy $\mathrm{SO}(2n)$, unless it is Vaisman, in which case it has restricted holonomy $\mathrm{SO}(2n-1)$. We also show that the restricted holonomy of a proper globally conformally Kähler compact manifold of dimension $2n$ is either $\mathrm{SO}(2n)$, or $\mathrm{SO}(2n-1)$, or $\mathrm{U}(n)$, and we give the complete description of the possible solutions in the last two cases.

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arXiv2016

Toric Vaisman Manifolds

Vaisman manifolds are strongly related to Kähler and Sasaki geometry. In this paper we introduce toric Vaisman structures and show that this relationship still holds in the toric context. It is known that the so-called minimal covering of a Vaisman manifold is the Riemannian cone over a Sasaki manifold. We show that if a complete Vaisman manifold is toric, then the associated Sasaki manifold is also toric. Conversely, a toric complete Sasaki manifold, whose Kähler cone is equipped with an appropriate compatible action, gives rise to a toric Vaisman manifold. In the special case of a strongly regular compact Vaisman manifold, we show that it is toric if and only if the corresponding Kähler quotient is toric.

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arXiv2015

S^1-equivariant Yamabe invariant of 3-manifolds

We show that the S^1-equivariant Yamabe invariant of the 3-sphere, endowed with the Hopf action, is equal to the (non-equivariant) Yamabe invariant of the 3-sphere. More generally, we establish a topological upper bound for the S^1-equivariant Yamabe invariant of any closed oriented 3-manifold endowed with an S^1-action. Furthermore, we prove a convergence result for the equivariant Yamabe constants of an accumulating sequence of subgroups of a compact Lie group acting on a closed manifold.

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arXiv2015

Eigenvalue Estimates of the ${\rm spin}^c$ Dirac Operator and Harmonic Forms on Kähler-Einstein Manifolds

We establish a lower bound for the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator defined on a compact Kähler-Einstein manifold of positive scalar curvature and endowed with particular ${\rm spin}^c$ structures. The limiting case is characterized by the existence of Kählerian Killing ${\rm spin}^c$ spinors in a certain subbundle of the spinor bundle. Moreover, we show that the Clifford multiplication between an effective harmonic form and a Kählerian Killing ${\rm spin}^c$ spinor field vanishes. This extends to the ${\rm spin}^c$ case the result of A. Moroianu stating that, on a compact Kähler-Einstein manifold of complex dimension $4\ell+3$ carrying a complex contact structure, the Clifford multiplication between an effective harmonic form and a Kählerian Killing spinor is zero.

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arXiv2013

Homogeneous almost quaternion-Hermitian manifolds

An almost quaternion-Hermitian structure on a Riemannian manifold $(M^{4n},g)$ is a reduction of the structure group of $M$ to $\mathrm{Sp}(n)\mathrm{Sp}(1)\subset \mathrm{SO}(4n)$. In this paper we show that a compact simply connected homogeneous almost quaternion-Hermitian manifold of non-vanishing Euler characteristic is either a Wolf space, or $\mathbb{S}^2\times \mathbb{S}^2$, or the complex quadric $\mathrm{SO}(7)/\mathrm{U}(3)$.

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