Paracontact metric structures on the unit tangent sphere bundle

Abstract

Starting from $g$-natural pseudo-Riemannian metrics of suitable signature on the unit tangent sphere bundle $T_1 M$ of a Riemannian manifold $(M,\langle,\rangle)$, we construct a family of paracontact metric structures. We prove that this class of paracontact metric structures is invariant under $\mathcal D$-homothetic deformations, and classify paraSasakian and paracontact $(\kappa,\mu)$-spaces inside this class. We also present a way to build paracontact $(\kappa,\mu)$-spaces from corresponding contact metric structures on $T_1 M$.