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In this paper a thorough study of the normal form and the first integrability conditions arising from {\em bi-conformal vector fields} is presented. These new symmetry transformations were introduced in {\em Class. Quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Alfonso García-Parrado Gómez-Lobo

Topological band theory has revolutionized our understanding of electronic structure of materials, in particular, a novel state - Weyl semimetal - has been predicted for systems with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Here, a new class of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-20 Yuanping Chen , Yuee Xie , Shengyuan A. Yang , Hui Pan , Fan Zhang , Marvin L. Cohen , Shengbai Zhang

Adopting the pullback approach to global Finsler geometry, the aim of the present paper is to provide new intrinsic (coordinate-free) proofs of intrinsic versions of the existence and uniqueness theorems for the Cartan and Berwald…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-11 Nabil L. Youssef , S. H. Abed , A. Soleiman

The aim of the present paper is to study the properties of Riemannian manifolds equipped with a projective semi-symmetric connection.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-03 S. K. Chaubey , S. K. Yadav , Pankaj

We characterize the geometry and topology of the set of all weight vectors for which a linear neural network computes the same linear transformation $W$. This set of weight vectors is called the fiber of $W$ (under the matrix multiplication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Jonathan Richard Shewchuk , Sagnik Bhattacharya

We obtain new quantitative estimates on Weyl Law remainders under dynamical assumptions on the geodesic flow. On a smooth compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ of dimension $n$, let $\Pi_\lambda$ denote the kernel of the spectral projector…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Yaiza Canzani , Jeffrey Galkowski

Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a simply laced Lie algebra, $\widehat{\mathfrak{g}}_1$ the corresponding affine Lie algebra at level one, and $\mathcal{W}(\mathfrak{g})$ the corresponding Casimir W-algebra. We consider…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Raphaël Belliard , Bertrand Eynard , Sylvain Ribault

We develop the properties of Weyl geometry, beginning with a review of the conformal properties of Riemannian spacetimes. Decomposition of the Riemann curvature into trace and traceless parts allows an easy proof that the Weyl curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-19 James T. Wheeler

In general relativity, the gravitational potential is represented by the Levi-Civita connection, the only symmetric connection preserving the metric. On a differentiable manifold, a metric identifies with an orthogonal structure, defined as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 M. Lachieze-Rey

We theoretically address the effects of strong magnetic fields in three-dimensional Weyl semimetals (WSMs) built out of Weyl nodes with a monopole charge $n$. For $n=1$, $2$, and $3$ we realize single, double, and triple WSM, respectively,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-29 Xiao Li , Bitan Roy , S. Das Sarma

Motivated by construction in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory we introduce wedge domains in compactly causal symmetric spaces M=G/H, which includes in particular anti de Sitter space in all dimensions and its coverings. Our wedge domains…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Karl-Hermann Neeb , Gestur Olafsson

For analyzing stationary Yang-Mills connections in higher dimensions, one has to work with Morrey-Sobolev bundles and connections. The transition maps for a Morrey-Sobolev principal $G$-bundles are not continuous and thus the usual notion…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Swarnendu Sil

We discover three-dimensional intertwined Weyl phases, by developing a theory to create topological phases. The theory is based on intertwining existing topological gapped and gapless phases protected by the same crystalline symmetry. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 W. B. Rui , Zhen Zheng , Moritz M. Hirschmann , Song-Bo Zhang , Chenjie Wang , Z. D. Wang

Let $\mathcal{M}$ be a smooth manifold of positive dimension $n$ equipped with a smooth density $d\mu_{\mathcal{M}}$. Let $A$ be a polyhomogeneous elliptic pseudo-differential operator of positive order $m$ on $\mathcal{M}$ which is…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-21 Alejandro Rivera

We consider a generalization of Riemannian geometry that naturally arises in the framework of control theory. Let $X$ and $Y$ be two smooth vector fields on a two-dimensional manifold $M$. If $X$ and $Y$ are everywhere linearly independent,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andrei A. Agrachev , Ugo Boscain , Mario Sigalotti

The class W_1 of conformal Riemannian P-manifolds is the largest class of Riemannian almost product manifolds, which is closed with respect to the group of the conformal transformations of the Riemannian metric. This class is an analogue of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-15 Dobrinka Gribacheva , Dimitar Mekerov

We show that on a surface locally every affine torsion-free connection is projectively equivalent to a Weyl connection. First, this is done using exterior differential system theory. Second, this is done by showing that the solutions of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-20 Thomas Mettler

We have revisited the gradient-flow in information geometry from the perspective of Weyl symmetry. The gradient-flow equations are derived from the proposed action which is invariant under the Weyl's gauge transformations. In Weyl…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Tatsuaki Wada , Sousuke Noda

Weak almost contact manifolds, i.e., the linear complex structure on the contact distribution is approximated by a nonsingular skew-symmetric tensor, defined by the author and R. Wolak (2022), allowed a new look at the theory of contact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Vladimir Rovenski

Pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with nonzero parallel Weyl tensor which are not locally symmetric are known as ECS manifolds. Every ECS manifold carries a distinguished null parallel distribution $\mathcal{D}$, the rank $d \in \{ 1, 2 \}$ of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Andrzej Derdzinski , Ivo Terek