On a metric symplectization of a contact metric manifold

Abstract

In this article, we investigate metric structures on the symplectization of a contact metric manifold and prove that there is a unique metric structure, which we call the metric symplectization, for which each slice of the symplectization has a natural induced contact metric structure. We then study the curvature properties of this metric structure and use it to establish equivalent formulations of the $(\kappa, \mu)$-nullity condition in terms of the metric symplectization. We also prove that isomorphisms of the metric symplectizations of $(\kappa, \mu)$-manifolds determine $(\kappa, \mu)$-manifolds up to D-homothetic transformations. These classification results show that the metric symplectization provides a unified framework to classify Sasakian manifolds, K-contact manifolds and $(\kappa, \mu)$-manifolds in terms of their symplectizations.