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Motivated by the construction of Bach flat neutral signature Riemannian extensions, we study the space of parallel trace free tensors of type $(1,1)$ on an affine surface. It is shown that the existence of such a parallel tensor field is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-26 E. Calviño-Louzao , E. García-Río , P. Gilkey , I. Gutiérrez-Rodríguez , R. Vázquez-Lorenzo

We study the geometric properties of a $(2m+1)$-dimensional complex manifold $\mathcal{M}$ admitting a holomorphic reduction of the frame bundle to the structure group $P \subset \mathrm{Spin}(2m+1,\mathbb{C})$, the stabiliser of the line…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-16 Arman Taghavi-Chabert

In this paper, we consider Weingarten curvature equations for $k$-convex hypersurfaces with $n<2k$ in a warped product manifold $\overline{M}=I\times_{\lambda}M$. Based on the conjecture proposed by Ren-Wang in \cite{Ren2}, which is valid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Xiaojuan Chen , Qiang Tu , Ni Xiang

In this paper we discuss curvature tensors in the context of Absolute Parallelism geometry. Different curvature tensors are expressed in a compact form in terms of the torsion tensor of the canonical connection. Using the Bianchi identities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Nabil L. Youssef , Amr M. Sid-Ahmed

We investigate the geometric properties of lightlike surfaces in the Minkowski space $\R^{2,1}$, using Cartan's method of moving frames to compute a complete set of local invariants for such surfaces. Using these invariants, we give a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Brian Carlsen , Jeanne N. Clelland

We show that if $\nabla R$ is a Jordan Szabo algebraic covariant derivative curvature tensor on a vector space of signature (p,q), where q is odd and p is less than q or if q is congruent to 2 mod 4 and if p is less than q-1, then $\nabla…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter B. Gilkey , Raina Ivanova , Iva Stavrov

Given a non-degenerate $(0,2)$-tensor field $h$ on a smooth manifold $M$, we consider a natural generalized complex and a generalized product structure on the generalized tangent bundle $TM\oplus T^*M$ of $M$ and we show that they are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Adara M. Blaga , Antonella Nannicini

Let $(M,\nabla,\langle\;,\;\rangle)$ be a manifold endowed with a flat torsionless connection $\nabla$ and a Riemannian metric $\langle\;,\;\rangle$ and $(T^kM)_{k\geq1}$ the sequence of tangent bundles given by $T^kM=T(T^{k-1}M)$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Mohamed Boucetta

We study the geometry of null hypersurfaces in indefinite complex contact manifolds. We prove several classification results for a variety of well-known null hypersurfaces, including the totally umbilic, totally screen umbilic, and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-21 Samuel Ssekajja

Let ${\mathcal F}_\lambda(\mathbb{S}^n)$ be the space of tensor densities on $\mathbb{S}^n$ of degree $\lambda$. We consider this space as an induced module of the nonunitary spherical series of the group $\mathrm{SO}_0(n+1,1)$ and classify…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Pascal Redou

We prove that holomorphic normal projective connections on compact complex surfaces are flat. We show that a holomorphic torsion-free affine connection $\nabla$ on a compact complex surface is locally modelled on a translations-invariant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-05-20 Sorin Dumitrescu

In our previous paper in \cite{C}, we generalized the almost-Schur lemma of De Lellis and Topping for closed manifolds with nonnegative Rcci curvature to any closed manifolds. In this paper, we generalize the above results to symmetric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Xu Cheng

Non-degenerate real hypersurfaces of almost Hermite-like manifolds are examined. Tangential real hypersurfaces are introduced and the main identities of such hypersurfaces are obtained. With the help of these identities, contact metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Esra Erkan , mehmet Gulbahar

In this paper, we construct a class of non-weight modules over the affine-Virasoro algebra of type $A_1$ by taking tensor products of a finite number of irreducible modules $M(\lambda, \alpha, \beta, \gamma)$ with irreducible highest weight…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Qiu-Fan Chen , Yu-Feng Yao

Consider a surface $M^2$ with Gaussian curvature either $< 0$ or $> 0$. We prove that in $M^2\times \mathbb{R}^n$ cylinders are characterized as the hypersurfaces with both the extrinsic and intrinsic curvatures equal to zero.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-07 João L. M. Barbosa , G. Pacelli Bessa

We study tensors on Lie groupoids suitably compatible with the groupoid structure, called {\em multiplicative}. Our main result gives a complete description of these objects only in terms of infinitesimal data. Special cases include the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Henrique Bursztyn , Thiago Drummond

The almost complex Lie algebroids over smooth manifolds are introduced in the paper. In the first part we give some examples and we obtain a Newlander-Nirenberg type theorem on almost complex Lie algebroids. Next the almost Hermitian Lie…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-06 Cristian Ida , Paul Popescu

Warped products are one of the simplest families of Riemannian manifolds that can have non-trivial geometries. In this article, we characterize the geometry of hypersurface embeddings arising from warped product manifolds using the language…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Samuel Blitz , Josef Silhan

Minkowski tensors are comprehensive shape descriptors that robustly capture n-point information in complex random geometries and that have already been extensively applied in the Euclidean plane. Here, we devise a novel framework for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-30 Caroline Collischon , Michael Klatt , Anthony Banday , Manami Sasaki , Christoph Räth

In this paper we study affine hypersurfaces with non-degenerate second fundamental form of arbitrary signature additionally equipped with an almost symplectic structure $\omega$. We prove that if $R^p\omega=0$ or $\nabla^p\omega =0$ for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Michal Szancer , Zuzanna Szancer