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Let Riemannian metrics $g$ and $\bar g$ on a connected manifold $M^n$ have the same geodesics (considered as unparameterized curves). Suppose the eigenvalues of one metric with respect to the other are all different at a point. Then, by the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-08 Vladimir S. Matveev

This paper considers 4-dimensional manifolds upon which there is a Lorentz metric, h, and a symmetric connection and which are originally assumed unrelated. It then derives sufficient conditions on the metric and connection (expressed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 G. S. Hall , D. P. Lonie

We introduce the concept of a Clifford-Weyl structure on a conformal manifold, which consists of an even Clifford structure parallel with respect to the tensor product of a metric connection on the Clifford bundle and a Weyl structure on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Charles Hadfield , Andrei Moroianu

The metrizability problem for a symmetric affine connection on a manifold, invariant with respect to a group of diffeomorphisms G, is considered. We say that the connection is G-metrizable, if it is expressible as the Levi-Civita connection…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 Erico Tanaka , Demeter Krupka

Consider a manifold with boundary, and such that the interior is equipped with a pseudo-Riemannian metric. We prove that, under mild asymptotic non-vanishing conditions on the scalar curvature, if the Levi-Civita connection of the interior…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Andreas Cap , A. Rod Gover

Let $(M,g)$ be a Riemannian manifold, $L(M)$ its frame bundle. We construct new examples of Riemannian metrics on $L(M)$, which are obtained from Riemannian metrics on the tangent bundle $TM$. We compute the Levi--Civita connection and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-07 Kamil Niedzialomski

In this note we introduce the concept of reflective projective varieties. These are stratified projective varieties with certain dimension constraints on their dual varieties. We prove that for such varieties, the Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Xiping Zhang

We study a large family of metric-affine theories with a projective symmetry, including non-minimally coupled matter fields which respect this invariance. The symmetry is straightforwardly realised by imposing that the connection only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-23 V. I. Afonso , Cecilia Bejarano , Jose Beltran Jimenez , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Emanuele Orazi

Methods were developed in Ref. [1] for constructing reference metrics (and from them differentiable structures) on three-dimensional manifolds with topologies specified by suitable triangulations. This note generalizes those methods by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-03 Lee Lindblom , Oliver Rinne

A three-dimensional Riemannian manifold has locally 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 or none independent Killing vectors. We present an explicit algorithm for computing dimension of the infinitesimal isometry algebra. It branches according to the values of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-08 Boris Kruglikov , Kentaro Tomoda

Based on its central role in the framework of real calculi, the existence of the Levi-Civita connection for real calculi over projective modules is studied, with a special emphasis placed on the simple module of N-dimensional complex…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Axel Tiger Norkvist

We introduce $q$-deformed connections on the quantum 2-sphere and 3-sphere, satisfying a twisted Leibniz rule in analogy with $q$-deformed derivations. We show that such connections always exist on projective modules. Furthermore, a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Joakim Arnlind , Kwalombota Ilwale , Giovanni Landi

We establish a one-to-one correspondence between K\"ahler metrics in a given conformal class and parallel sections of a certain vector bundle with conformally invariant connection, where the parallel sections satisfy a set of non--linear…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Maciej Dunajski , A. Rod Gover

In this paper, we study locally strongly convex affine hypersurfaces with vanishing Weyl curvature tensor and semi-parallel cubic form relative to the Levi-Civita connection of affine metric. As the main result, we classify such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Huiyang Xu , Cece Li

An example of a three dimensional flat paracontact metric manifold with respect to Levi-Civita connection is constructed. It is shown that no such manifold exists for odd dimensions greater than or equal to five.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-02 Simeon Zamkovoy , Vassil Tzanov

In the literature different concepts of compatibility between a projective structure and a conformal structure on a differentiable manifold are used. In particular compatibility in the sense of Weyl geometry is slightly more general than…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Vladimir S. Matveev , Erhard Scholz

On 5-dimensional almost contact B-metric manifolds, the form of any K\"ahler-type tensor (i.e. a tensor satisfying the properties of the curvature tensor of the Levi-Civita connection in the special class of the parallel structures on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-06 Mancho Manev , Miroslava Ivanova

A study is made of 4-dimensional Lorentz manifolds which are projectively related, that is, whose Levi-Civita connections give rise to the same (unparameterised) geodesics. A brief review of some relevant recent work is provided and a list…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-12 Graham S. Hall , David P. Lonie

As is well known, a metric on a manifold determines a unique symmetric connection for which the metric is parallel: the Levi-Civita connection. In this paper we investigate the inverse problem: to what extent is the metric of a Riemannian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-09-19 Richard Atkins

We give a new definition of Levi-Civita connection for a noncommutative pseudo-Riemannian metric on a noncommutative manifold given by a spectral triple. We prove the existence-uniqueness result for a class of modules of one forms over a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Jyotishman Bhowmick , Debashish Goswami , Sugato Mukhopadhyay