%0 Journal Article %T Paracontact metric structures on the unit tangent sphere bundle %A Giovanni Calvaruso \and Ver¨®nica Mart¨ªn-Molina %J Mathematics %D 2013 %I arXiv %R 10.1007/s10231-014-0424-4 %X Starting from $g$-natural pseudo-Riemannian metrics of suitable signature on the unit tangent sphere bundle $T_1 M$ of a Riemannian manifold $(M,\langle,\rangle)$, we construct a family of paracontact metric structures. We prove that this class of paracontact metric structures is invariant under $\mathcal D$-homothetic deformations, and classify paraSasakian and paracontact $(\kappa,\mu)$-spaces inside this class. We also present a way to build paracontact $(\kappa,\mu)$-spaces from corresponding contact metric structures on $T_1 M$. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4213v1