In differential geometry, a Sasakian manifold (named after Shigeo Sasaki) is a contact manifold equipped with a special kind of Riemannian metric , called a Sasakian metric.
A Sasakian metric is defined using the construction of the Riemannian cone. Given a Riemannian manifold , its Riemannian cone is a product
of with a half-line , equipped with the cone metric