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We investigate the holonomy group of a linear metric connection with skew-symmetric torsion. In case of the euclidian space and a constant torsion form this group is always semisimple. It does not preserve any non-degenerated 2-form or any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-06 Ilka Agricola , Thomas Friedrich

A 3-dimensional Riemannian manifold equipped with a tensor structure of type $(1,1)$, whose third power is the identity, is considered. This structure and the metric have circulant matrices with respect to some basis, i.e., these structures…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Iva Dokuzova

Pre-geodesics of an affine connection are the curves that are geodesics after a reparametrization (the analogous concept in K\"ahler geometry is known as J-planar curves). Similarly, dual-geodesics on a Riemannian manifold are curves along…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Andreas Vollmer

In this paper we explore the geometric structures associated with curvature radii of curves with values on a Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$. We show the existence of sub-Riemannian manifolds naturally associated with the curvature radii and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Eugenio Bellini

We construct a version of geodesic normal coordinates adapted to a submanifold of a pseudo-Riemannian manifold and show that the Taylor coefficients of the metric in these coordinates can be expressed as universal polynomials in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-15 C Robin Graham , Tzu-Mo Kuo

We study Riemannian manifolds carrying a metric connection with parallel, skew-symmetric and closed torsion, which we call in short PSCT manifolds. We prove that PSCT manifolds always locally split into a product of well-understood factors,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Andrei Moroianu , Paul Schwahn

We investigate ruled surfaces in 3d Riemannian manifolds, i.e., surfaces foliated by geodesics. In 3d space forms, we find the striction curve, distribution parameter, and the first and second fundamental forms, from which we obtain the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Luiz C. B. da Silva , José D. da Silva

We formulate the Riemannian calculus of the probability set embedded with $L^2$-Wasserstein metric. This is an initial work of transport information geometry. Our investigation starts with the probability simplex (probability manifold)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Wuchen Li

We review the Reidemeister torsion, Ray-Singer's analytic torsion and the Cheeger-M"uller theorem. We describe the analytic torsion of the de Rham complex twisted by a flux form introduced by the current authors and recall its properties.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-13 Varghese Mathai , Siye Wu

This article introduces the problem of finding intrinsic torsion varieties associated to G-structures on a fixed parallelizable Riemannian manifold. As an illustration, the intrinsic torsion varieties of orthogonal almost product structures…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Georgi Mihaylov

The geometrical description of a Hilbert space asociated with a quantum system considers a Hermitian tensor to describe the scalar inner product of vectors which are now described by vector fields. The real part of this tensor represents a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 P. Aniello , J. Clemente-Gallardo , G. Marmo , G. F. Volkert

Connections with (skew-symmetric) torsion on non-symmetric Riemannian manifold satisfying the Einstein metricity condition (NGT with torsion) are considered. It is shown that an almost Hermitian manifold is an NGT with torsion if and only…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Stefan Ivanov , Milan Zlatanovic

We show that the torsion of a Cartan geometry can be associated to two spin-2 fields. This structure allows a new approach to deal with the proposal of geometrization of spin-2 fields besides the traditional one dealt with in General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Novello

Shape analysis and compuational anatomy both make use of sophisticated tools from infinite-dimensional differential manifolds and Riemannian geometry on spaces of functions. While comprehensive references for the mathematical foundations…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Martins Bruveris

Whenever a given Poisson manifold is equipped with discrete symmetries the corresponding algebra of invariant functions or the algebra of functions twisted by the symmetry group can have new deformations, which are not captured by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Alexey Sharapov , Evgeny Skvortsov , Arseny Sukhanov

We define virtual immersions, as a generalization of isometric immersions in a pseudo-Riemannian vector space. We show that virtual immersions possess a second fundamental form, which is in general not symmetric. We prove that a manifold…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Ricardo A. E. Mendes , Marco Radeschi

Dual affine connections on Riemannian manifolds have played a central role in the field of information geometry since their introduction by Amari. Here I would like to extend the notion of dual connections to general vector bundles with an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Paolo Perrone

The paper will study a new quarter-symmetric non-metric connection on a generalized Riemannian manifold. It will determine the relations that the torsion tensor satisfies. The exterior derivative of the skew-symmetric part $F$ of basic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Miroslav Maksimović

The n-dimensional Lorentzian manifolds with vanishing second covariant derivative of the Riemann tensor (2-symmetric spacetimes) are characterized and classified. The main result is that either they are locally symmetric or they have a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-10-24 José M. M. Senovilla

In this paper we give a spinorial representation of submanifolds of any dimension and codimension into Riemannian space forms in terms of the existence of so called generalized Killing spinors. We then discuss several applications, among…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-16 P. Bayard , M. -A. Lawn , J. Roth