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In this paper, we investigate the geometry of Einstein-type equation on a Riemannian manifold, unifying various particular geometric structures recently studied in the literature, such as critical point equation and vacuum static equation.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Gabjin Yun , Seungsu Hwang

The local geometry of a Riemannian symmetric space is described completely by the Riemannian metric and the Riemannian curvature tensor of the space. In the present article I describe how to compute these tensors for any Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-10-15 Sebastian Klein

We study the geometry of a weak Riemannian metric on the infinite dimensional manifold of compact spacelike Cauchy hypersurfaces in a globally hyperbolic spacetime. We show that the geodesic distance (i.e. the infimum of lengths of paths…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Daniel Monclair

Riemannian geometry is a mathematical field which has been the cornerstone of revolutionary scientific discoveries such as the theory of general relativity. Despite early uses in robot design and recent applications for exploiting data with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Noémie Jaquier , Tamim Asfour

We study the types of non-integrable $\mathrm{G}$-structures on Riemannian manifolds. In particular, geometric types admitting a connection with totally skew-symmetric torsion are characterized. 8-dimensional manifolds equipped with a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Friedrich

A submanifold of a pseudo-Riemannian manifold is said to have parallel mean curvature vector if the mean curvature vector field H is parallel as a section of the normal bundle. Submanifolds with parallel mean curvature vector are important…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-02 Bang-Yen Chen

We study in this paper previously defined by V.N. Berestovskii and C.P. Plaut $\delta$-homogeneous spaces in the case of Riemannian manifolds. Every such manifold has non-negative sectional curvature. The universal covering of any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. N. Berestovskii , Yu. G. Nikonorov

An integral geometric curvature is defined as the index expectation K(x) = E[i(x)] if a probability measure m is given on vector fields on a Riemannian manifold or on a finite simple graph. Such curvatures are local, satisfy Gauss-Bonnet…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-25 Oliver Knill

The purpose of this note is to study the complex structures orthogonal to a given Riemannian metric. For another paper on this topic, we highly recommend the work of Salamon. His work describes in great detail the role that curvature plays…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-06 Gabriel Khan

On a smooth connected manifold, we consider all possible locally elliptic and locally bounded measurable coefficient Riemannian metrics called rough Riemannian metrics. We equip this set with an extended metric which is connected if and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Lashi Bandara , Anisa Hassan

A proposal is made for what could well be the most natural symmetrical Riemannian spaces which are homogeneous but not isotropic, i.e. of what could well be the most natural class of symmetrical spaces beyond the spaces of constant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-06 Stefan Haesen , Leopold Verstraelen

We are interested in the geometry of the group $\mathcal{D}_q(M)$ of diffeomorphisms preserving a contact form $\theta$ on a manifold $M$. We define a Riemannian metric on $\mathcal{D}_q(M)$, compute the corresponding geodesic equation, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-21 David G. Ebin , Stephen C. Preston

In this paper, we introduce Clairaut warped product Riemannian maps. To study these kind of maps, first, we find the condition of geodesic of a regular curve. Then we obtain the conditions for a warped product Riemannian map to be Clairaut…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-27 J. Yadav , G. Shanker

As a generalization of anti-invariant Riemannian submersions, we introduce anti-invariant Riemannian maps from almost Hermitian manifolds to Riemannian manifolds. We give examples and investigate the geometry of foliations which are arisen…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-02 Bayram Sahin

We present a uniform framework generalising and extending the classical theories of projective differential geometry, c-projective geometry, and almost quaternionic geometry. Such geometries, which we call \emph{projective parabolic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-17 George E. Frost

We study the holonomy that is associated to a sub-Riemannian structure defined on the kernel of a global contact form. This includes the holonomy of Schouten's horizontal connection as well as of the adapted connection, both canonical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Anton S. Galaev , Thomas Leistner , Felipe Leitner

Rigging technique introduced in \cite{bi0} is a convenient way to address the study of null hypersurfaces. It offers in addition the extra benefit of inducing a Riemannian structure on the null hypersurface which is used to study geometric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-30 Cyriaque Atindogbe , Manuel Gutiérrez , Raymond Hounnonkpe

The usual notion of set-convexity, valid in the classical Euclidean context, metamorphoses into several distinct convexity types in the more general Riemannian setting. By studying this phenomenon in reverse, we characterize complete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Octavian Mitrea

We study homogeneous geodesics of sub-Riemannian manifolds, i.e., normal geodesics that are orbits of one-parametric subgroups of isometries. We obtain a criterion for a geodesic to be homogeneous in terms of its initial momentum. We prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-08 A. V. Podobryaev

We describe a construction of Riemannian metrics of nonnegative sectional curvature on a closed smooth nonorientable 4-manifold with fundamental group of order two that realizes a homotopy class that was not previously known to contain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Rafael Torres