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We illustrate a rigorous approach to express the totally symmetric isotropic tensors of arbitrary rank in the $n$-dimensional Euclidean space as a linear combination of products of Kronecker deltas. By making full use of the symmetries, one…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 June-Haak Ee , Dong-Won Jung , U-Rae Kim , Jungil Lee

Motivated by the theory of isoparametric hypersurfaces, we study submanifolds whose tubular hypersurfaces have some constant "higher order mean curvatures". Here a $k$-th order mean curvature $Q_k$ ($k\geq1$) of a hypersurface $M^n$ is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-03 Jianquan Ge

The universal Kummer threefold is a 9-dimensional variety that represents the total space of the 6-dimensional family of Kummer threefolds in 7-dimensional projective space. We compute defining polynomials for three versions of this family,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-14 Qingchun Ren , Steven V Sam , Gus Schrader , Bernd Sturmfels

The paper is constructed in two parts.In the first part we introduce the concept of the algebra of Q-meromorphic functions on the quantum plane.The A (q)-algebra of Q-analytic functions considered in[6]is seen as a proper subalgebra. In the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-30 Vida Milani , Seyed M. H. Mansourbeigi , Farzaneh Falahati

This paper examines 8-dimensional Riemannian manifolds whose structure group reduces to ${SO(4)}_{ir}\subset GL(8,\mathbb R)$, the image of an irreducible representation of $SO(4)$ on $\mathbb R^8$. We demonstrate that such a reduction can…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Elitza Hristova , Ivan Minchev

Within the framework of the Lovelock gravity theory, we propose a new rank-four divergenceless tensor consisting of the Riemann curvature tensor and inheriting its algebraic symmetry characters. Such a tensor can be adopted to define…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-23 Jun-Jin Peng , Hui-Fa Liu

The equations of General Relativity are recast in the form of a wave equation for the Weyl tensor. This allows to reformulate gravitational wave theory in terms of curvature waves, rather than metric waves. The existence of two transverse…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-21 Jan W. van Holten

For Schwarzschild space-time, distributional expressions of energy-momentum densities and of scalar concomitants of the curvature tensors are examined for a class of coordinate systems which includes those of the Schwarzschild and of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Toshiharu Kawai , Eisaku Sakane

We study the {\em propagation of electromagnetic waves} in a spacetime devoid of a metric but equipped with a {\em linear} electromagnetic spacetime relation $H\sim\chi\cdot F$. Here $H$ is the electromagnetic excitation $({\cal D},{\cal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Guillermo F. Rubilar , Yuri N. Obukhov , Friedrich W. Hehl

Loop quantum cosmology (LQC) provides promising resolutions to the trans-Planckian issue and initial singularity arising in the inflationary models of general relativity. In general, due to different quantization approaches, LQC involves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-10 Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang , Gerald Cleaver , Klaus Kirsten , Qin Sheng , Qiang Wu

In the canonical approach to Lorentzian Quantum General Relativity in four spacetime dimensions an important step forward has been made by Ashtekar, Isham and Lewandowski some eight years ago through the introduction of an appropriate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Thiemann , O. Winkler

We complete the classification of order $5$ nonsymplectic automorphisms on hyper-K\"ahler fourfolds deformation equivalent to the Hilbert square of a K3 surface. We then compute the topological Lefschetz number of natural automorphisms of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-16 Samuel Boissière , Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen , Kévin Tari

The shape of a number field $K$ of degree $n$ is defined as the equivalence class of the lattice of integers under linear operations generated by rotations, reflections, and positive scalar dilations. It may be viewed as a point in the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Anuj Jakhar , Anwesh Ray

An expansion is developed for the Weil-Petersson Riemann curvature tensor in the thin region of the Teichm\"{u}ller and moduli spaces. The tensor is evaluated on the gradients of geodesic-lengths for disjoint geodesics. A precise lower…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-05 Scott A. Wolpert

Invariant tensors are states in the (local) SU(2) tensor product representation but invariant under global SU(2) action. They are of importance in the study of loop quantum gravity. A random tensor is an ensemble of tensor states. An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Youning Li , Muxin Han , Dong Ruan , Bei Zeng

Within the framework of generally covariant (pre-metric) electrodynamics, we specify a local vacuum spacetime relation between the excitation $H=({\cal D},{\cal H})$ and the field strength $F=(E,B)$. We study the propagation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Friedrich W. Hehl , Yuri N. Obukhov , Guillermo F. Rubilar

Quantum Information is a new area of research which has been growing rapidly since the last decade. This topic is very close to potential applications to the so called Quantum Computer. In our point of view it makes sense to develop a more…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-04-18 A. Baraviera , C. F. Lardizabal , A. O. Lopes , M. Terra Cunha

We study hypersurfaces of the four-dimensional Thurston geometry $\text{Sol}^4_0$, which is a Riemannian homogeneous space and a solvable Lie group. In particular, we give a full classification of hypersurfaces whose second fundamental form…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Marie D'haene , Jun-ichi Inoguchi , Joeri Van der Veken

Various problems concerning the geometry of the space $u^*(\cH)$ of Hermitian operators on a Hilbert space $\cH$ are addressed. In particular, we study the canonical Poisson and Riemann-Jordan tensors and the corresponding foliations into…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Janusz Grabowski , Marek Kuś , Giuseppe Marmo

Scalar curvature invariants are studied in type N solutions of vacuum Einstein's equations with in general non-vanishing cosmological constant Lambda. Zero-order invariants which include only the metric and Weyl (Riemann) tensor either…

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