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In this paper we discuss curvature tensors in the context of Absolute Parallelism geometry. Different curvature tensors are expressed in a compact form in terms of the torsion tensor of the canonical connection. Using the Bianchi identities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Nabil L. Youssef , Amr M. Sid-Ahmed

The geometric properties of quantum states are crucial for understanding many physical phenomena in quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics, and optics. The central object describing these properties is the quantum geometric tensor,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Marius A. Oancea , Thomas B. Mieling , Giandomenico Palumbo

We propose a notion of a ternary skew-symmetric covariant tensor of 3rd order, consider it as a 3-dimensional matrix and study a ten-dimensional complex space of these tensors. We split this space into a direct sum of two five-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-07 Viktor Abramov , Olga Liivapuu

We present an algebraic investigation of generalized and equiaffine curvature tensors in a given pseudo-Euclidean vector space and study different orthogonal, irreducible decompositions in analogy to the known decomposition of algebraic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-31 P. Gilkey , S. Nikcevic , U. Simon

Let R be an algebraic curvature tensor for a non-degenerate inner product of signature(p,q) where q>4. If $\pi$ is a spacelike 2 plane, let $R(\pi)$ be the associated skew-symmetric curvature operator. We classify the algebraic curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter Gilkey , Tan Zhang

The class of the Riemannian almost product manifolds with nonintegrable structure is considered. Some identities for curvature tensor as certain invariant tensors and quantities are obtained.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-14 Dimitar Mekerov

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

We examine questions of geometric realizability for algebraic structures which arise naturally in affine and Riemannian geometry. Suppose given an algebraic curvature operator R at a point P of a manifold M and suppose given a real analytic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-25 P. Gilkey , S. Nikcevic , D. Westerman

We describe and construct here pseudo-Hermitian structures $\theta$ without torsion (i.e. with transversal symmetry) whose Webster-Ricci curvature tensor is a constant multiple of the exterior differential $d\theta$. We call these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Felipe Leitner

In this article, the quantum representation of the algebra among reduced twisted geometries (with respect to the Gauss constraint) is constructed in the gauge invariant Hilbert space of loop quantum gravity. It is shown that the reduced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-05 Gaoping Long , Cong Zhang , Hongguang Liu

In this paper the application of the $M$-projective curvature tensor in the general theory of relativity has been studied. Firstly, we have proved that an $M$-projectively flat quasi-Einstein spacetime is of a special class with respect to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-09 Kaushik Chattopadhyay , Arindam Bhattacharyya , Dipankar Debnath

Linear connections satisfying the Einstein metricity condition are important in the study of generalized Riemannian manifolds $(M,G=g+F)$, where the symmetric part $g$ of $G$ is a non-degenerate $(0,2)$-tensor, and $F$ is the skew-symmetric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Milan Zlatanović , Vladimir Rovenski

We review the notion of shape tensor of an embedded manifold, which efficiently combines intrinsic and extrinsic geometry, and allows for intuitive understanding of some basic concepts of classical differential geometry, such as parallel…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-10 Vaclav Zatloukal

From the Aharonov-Bohm effect to general relativity, geometry plays a central role in modern physics. In quantum mechanics many physical processes depend on the Berry curvature. However, recent advances in quantum information theory have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-04 Michael Kolodrubetz , Vladimir Gritsev , Anatoli Polkovnikov

On a Riemannian almost product manifold $(M,P,g)$ we consider a linear connection preserving the almost product structure $P$ and the Riemannian metric $g$ and having a totally skew-symmetric torsion. We determine the class of the manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-08 Dimitar Mekerov , Mancho Manev

We study the quantum Riemannian geometry of quantum projective spaces of any dimension. In particular we compute the Riemann and Ricci tensors, using previously introduced quantum metrics and quantum Levi-Civita connections. We show that…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Marco Matassa

In the context of mathematical cosmology, the study of necessary and sufficient conditions for a semi-Riemannian manifold to be a (generalised) Robertson-Walker space-time is important. In particular, it is a requirement for the development…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-30 Kostas Tzanavaris , Pau Amaro Seoane

A geometry with parallel skew-symmetric torsion is a Riemannian manifold carrying a metric connection with parallel skew-symmetric torsion. Besides the trivial case of the Levi-Civita connection, geometries with non-vanishing parallel…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Richard Cleyton , Andrei Moroianu , Uwe Semmelmann

We introduce a natural extension of the metric tensor and the Hodge star operator to the algebra of double forms to study some aspects of the structure of this algebra. These properties are then used to study new Riemannian curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. -L. Labbi

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