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Tangent category theory is a well-established categorical framework for differential geometry. A long list of fundamental geometric constructions, such as the tangent bundle functor, vector fields, Euclidean spaces, and vector bundles have…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Marcello Lanfranchi

We study higher-order theories of gravitation; in particular, we will focus our attention on the second-order theory, in which conformal symmetry can be implemented.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-27 Luca Fabbri

Assortativity was first introduced by Newman and has been extensively studied and applied to many real world networked systems since then. Assortativity is a graph metrics and describes the tendency of high degree nodes to be directly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-15 Alberto Arcagni , Rosanna Grassi , Silvana Stefani , Anna Torriero

The aim of this paper is to present an algebro-geometric approach to the study of the geometry of the moduli space of stable bundles on a smooth projective curve defined over an algebraically closed field $k$, of arbitrary characteristic.…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Emili Bifet , Franco Ghione , Maurizio Letizia

Adopting the global approach to tangent bundles of order two established in[1], we develop this approach to find new results. We also generalize various results of [3], [4] and [6] to the geometry of tangent bundles of order two.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nabil L. Youssef

We construct a conformally invariant vector bundle connection such that its equation of parallel transport is a first order system that gives a prolongation of the conformal Killing equation on differential forms. Parallel sections of this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-26 A. Rod Gover , Josef Silhan

We classify the radially symmetric connections in vector bundles over round spheres by proving that they are all parallel.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Kristopher Tapp

Higher-spin diffeomorphisms are to higher-order differential operators what diffeomorphisms are to vector fields. Their rigorous definition is a challenging mathematical problem which might predate a better understanding of higher-spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-14 Xavier Bekaert

The main purpose of this article is to introduce a comprehensive, unified theory of the geometry of all connections. We show that one can study a connection via a certain, closely associated second-order differential equation. One of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-13 L. Del Riego , Phillip. E. Parker

The development of mathematics has been characterized by the increasing interconnectivity of seemingly separate disciplines. Such interplay has been facilitated by a massive development in formalism; category theory has provided a common…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Aurel Malapani

This paper investigates the cohomological property of vector bundles on biprojective space. We will give a criterion for a vector bundle to be isomorphic to the tensor product of pullbacks of exterior products of differential sheaves.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Francesco Malaspina , Chikashi Miyazaki

This is an overview of higher structural constructions in physics. The main motivations of our current attempt are as follows: (i) to provide a brief introduction to derived algebraic geometry, (ii) to understand how derived objects…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-14 Kadri İlker Berktav

We study a type of connection forms, given by Chen integrals, over pathspaces by placing such forms within a category-theoretic framework of principal bundles and connections. We introduce a notion of 'decorated' principal bundles, develop…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-07 Saikat Chatterjee , Amitabha Lahiri , Ambar N. Sengupta

The spectral properties of traditional (dyadic) graphs, where an edge connects exactly two vertices, are widely studied in different applications. These spectral properties are closely connected to the structural properties of dyadic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Hao Tian , Shengmin Jin , Reza Zafarani

The aim of this paper is to prove characterization theorems for higher order derivations. Among others we prove that the system defining higher order derivations is stable. Further characterization theorems in the spirit of N.~G.~de Bruijn…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Eszter Gselmann

For a smooth manifold $M$, it was shown in \cite{BPH} that every affine connection on the tangent bundle $TM$ naturally gives rise to covariant differentiation of multivector fields (MVFs) and differential forms along MVFs. In this paper,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-17 David N. Pham

We search for Riemannian metrics whose Levi-Civita connection belongs to a given projective class. Following Sinjukov and Mikes, we show that such metrics correspond precisely to suitably positive solutions of a certain projectively…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-22 Michael Eastwood , Vladimir S. Matveev

We first highlight the main differences between second order and higher order linear parabolic equations. Then we survey existing results for the latter, in particular by analyzing the behavior of the convolution kernels. We illustrate the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-21 Gerassimos Barbatis , Filippo Gazzola

In this paper, we introduce a study of prolongations of homogeneous vector bundles. We give an alternative approach for the prolongation. For a given homogeneous vector bundle E, we obtain a new homogeneous vector bundle. The homogeneous…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Hulya Kadioglu

We explore the consequences of introducing higher-order interactions in a geometric complex network of Morris-Lecar neurons. We focus on the regime where travelling synchronization waves are observed out of a first-neighbours based…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-11-20 A. Tlaie , I. Leyva , I. Sendiña