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The notion of an odd quasi-connection on a supermanifold, which is loosely an affine connection that carries non-zero Grassmann parity, is examined. Their torsion and curvature are defined, however, in general, they are not tensors. A…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Andrew James Bruce , Janusz Grabowski

Motivated by the analogies between the projective and the almost quaternionic geometries, we study the generalized planar curves and mappings. We follow, recover, and extend the classical approach as developed by Mikes and Sinyukov. Then we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jaroslav Hrdina , Jan Slovak

We introduce a new approach for computing curvature of sub-Riemannian manifolds. Curvature is here meant as symplectic invariants of Jacobi curves of geodesics, as introduced by Zelenko and Li. We describe how they can be expressed using a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Erlend Grong

We consider a geometric property of the closest-points projection to a geodesic in Teichm\"uller space: the projection is called contracting if arbitrarily large balls away from the geodesic project to sets of bounded diameter. (This…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Yair Minsky

We introduce and begin a systematic study of sublinearly contracting projections. We give two characterizations of Morse quasi-geodesics in an arbitrary geodesic metric space. One is that they are sublinearly contracting; the other is that…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-09 Goulnara N. Arzhantseva , Christopher H. Cashen , Dominik Gruber , David Hume

A contact projective structure is a contact path geometry the paths of which are among the geodesics of some affine connection. In the manner of T.Y. Thomas there is associated to each contact projective structure an ambient affine…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-05-10 Daniel J. F. Fox

This paper is a survey of results obtained by the authors on the geometry of connections with totally skew-symmetric torsion on the following manifolds: almost complex manifolds with Norden metric, almost contact manifolds with B-metric and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-27 Mancho Manev , Dimitar Mekerov , Kostadin Gribachev

Tensor generalizations of affine vector fields called symmetric and antisymmetric affine tensor fields are discussed as symmetry of spacetimes. We review the properties of the symmetric ones, which have been studied in earlier works, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-11 Tsuyoshi Houri , Yoshiyuki Morisawa , Kentaro Tomoda

We define a Weyl-type curvature tensor of $(1,2)$-type to provide a characterization for Finsler metrics of constant flag curvature. This Weyl-type curvature tensor is projective invariant only to projective factors that are Hamel…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Georgeta Cretu

A definition is suggested for affine symmetry tensors, which generalize the notion of affine vectors in the same way that (conformal) Killing tensors generalize (conformal) Killing vectors. An identity for these tensors is proved, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-15 Samuel A. Cook , Tevian Dray

Semi-Equivelar maps are generalizations of Archimedean Solids (as are equivelar maps of the Platonic solids) to the surfaces other than $2-$Sphere. We classify some semi equivelar maps on surface of Euler characteristic -1 and show that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-01-18 Ashish K. Upadhyay , Anand K. Tiwari , Dipendu Maity

Let M be a manifold endowed with a symmetric affine connection $\Gamma.$ The aim of this paper is to describe a quantization map between the space of second-order polynomials on the cotangent bundle T^{*} M and the space of second-order…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-23 S. Bouarroudj

We show that projective structures with torsion are described in terms of affine connections in a parallel way as in the torsion-free case which is done by Kobayashi and Nagano. For this, we make use of a bundle of formal frames, which is a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Taro Asuke

We determine those maps between affine or projective spaces that are linear in the abstract sense of transforming collinear points into collinear points and whose restriction to any line is constant or injective. Our results are extensions…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Juan B. Sancho de Salas

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

Here we treat the problem: given a torsion-free connection do its geodesics, as unparametrised curves, coincide with the geodesics of an Einstein metric? We find projective invariants such that the vanishing of these is necessary for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-01 A. Rod Gover , Heather Macbeth

We introduce an alternative formalization of curved spaces in which the concept of a pointwise affine space, as defined here, replaces that of a manifold. New or modified definitions of familiar notions from differential geometry such as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Dan Jonsson

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

A recent paper showed how to find sets of finite affine or projective planes constructed on a common set of points, so that lines of one plane meet lines of a different plane in at most two points. In this paper, those results are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Mark Saaltink

It is generalized Weyl conformal curvature tensor in the case of a conformal mappings of a generalized Riemannian space in this paper. Moreover, it is found universal generalizations of it without any additional assumption. A method used in…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-11-07 Nenad O. Vesic