On the rigidity of the Sasakian structure and characterization of cosymplectic manifolds

Abstract: We introduce new metric structures on a smooth manifold (called "weak" structures) that generalize the almost contact, Sasakian, cosymplectic, etc. metric structures $(\varphi,\xi,\eta,g)$ and allow us to take a fresh look at the classical theory. We demonstrate this statement by generalizing several well-known results. We prove that any Sasakian structure is rigid, i.e., our weak Sasakian structure is homothetically equivalent to a Sasakian structure. We show that a weak almost contact structure with parallel tensor $\varphi$ is a weak cosymplectic structure and give an example of such a structure on the product of manifolds. We find conditions for a vector field to be a weak contact infinitesimal transformation.