On Static Manifolds and Related Critical Spaces with cyclic parallel Ricci tensor

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to classify three dimensional compact Riemannian manifolds $(M^{3},g)$ that admits a non-constant solution to the equation $$-\Delta f g+Hess f-fRic=\mu Ric+\lambda g,$$ for some special constants $(\mu, \lambda)$, under assumption that the manifold has cyclic parallel Ricci tensor. Namely, the structures that we will study here will be: positive static triples, critical metrics of the volume functional, and critical metrics of the total scalar curvature functional. We shall also classify $n$-dimensional critical metrics of the volume functional with non-positive scalar curvature and satisfying the cyclic parallel Ricci tensor condition.