Some results about concircular vector fields on Riemannian manifolds

Abstract

In this article, we show that the presence of a concircular vector field on a Riemannian manifold can be used to obtain rigidity results for Riemannian and Kaehler manifolds. More precisely, we find new geometrical characterizations of spheres, Euclidean spaces as well as of complex Euclidean spaces using non-trivial concircular vector fields.