On almost para-cosymplectic manifolds

Abstract

An almost para-cosymplectic manifold is by definition an odd-dimensional differentiable manifold endowed with an almost paracontact stmcture with hyperbolic metric for which the structure forms are closed. The local structure of an almost para-cosymplectic manifold is described. We also treat some special subclasses of this class of manifolds: para-cosymplectic, weakly para-cosymplectic and almost para-cosymplectic with para-Kahlerian leaves. Necessary and sufficient conditions for an almost para-cosymplectic manifold to be para-cosymplectic are found. Necessary and sufficient conditions for an almost para-cosymplectic manifold with para-Kahlerian leaves to be weakly para-cosymplectic are also established. We construct examples of weakly para-cosymplectic manifolds, which are not paracosymplectic. It is proved that in dimensions $\geq 5$ an almost paracosymplectic manifold cannot be of non-zero constant sectional curvature. Main curvature identities which are fulfilled by any almost para-cosymplectic manifold are found.