Four-dimensional almost-Einstein manifolds with circulant structures

Abstract

This paper considers a four-dimensional Riemannian manifold with an additional circulant tensor structure $Q$. We prove that such a manifold is almost-Einstein if the curvature tensor preserves the action of the structure on the last two arguments. Additionally, we examine an associated Riemannian product manifold $(M, g, Q)$ where $P=Q^{2}$, deriving explicit expressions for the curvature tensor in terms of the metric and the product structure. The sectional and Ricci curvatures of these manifolds are determined using special bases generated by the images of a given vector under the structure $Q$. Finally, we construct a non-trivial example of a four-dimensional locally product manifold by embedding a four-dimensional hypersurface into a ten-dimensional Euclidean space.