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Many extensions of General Relativity are based on considering metric and affine structures as independent properties of spacetime. This leads to the possibility of introducing torsion as an independent degree of freedom. In this article we…
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We show that every skew-symmetric 6 x 6 matrix of linear forms with vanishing Pfaffian is congruent to one of finitely many types of matrices, each of which is characterised by a specific pattern of zeroes (and some other linear relations)…
We extend the classification of complete polynomial vector fields on C^2 given by Marco Brunella (Topology 43(2): 433-445, 2004) to cover the case of holomorphic (non-polynomial) vector fields whose underlying foliation is however still…