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In this note, we construct new examples of Lorentzian Sasaki-Einstein (LSE) metrics on Smale manifolds $M.$ It has already been established in \cite{Gmz2} that such metrics exist on the so-called torsion free Smale manifolds, i.e. the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-15 Ralph R. Gomez

The present note deals with the properties of metric connections $\nabla$ with vectorial torsion $V$ on semi-Riemannian manifolds $(M^n,g)$. We show that the $\nabla$-curvature is symmetric if and only if $V^{\flat}$ is closed, and that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-01 Ilka Agricola , Margarita Kraus

In this paper, we define the notion of eikonal helix and eikonal slant helix for null curves in the 4-dimensional Lorentzian manifold M 1 4 and give a characterization for the null curve to be the null eikonal helix. Moreover, we indicate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Evren Zıplar

We classify, up to homeomorphisms, the closed simply-connected 4-manifolds that admit a Riemannian metric for which averages of pairs of sectional curvatures of orthogonal planes are positive.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Renato G. Bettiol

Generalized Berwald manifolds are Finsler manifolds admitting linear connections such that the parallel transports preserve the Finslerian length of tangent vectors. By the fundamental result of the theory \cite{V5} such a linear connection…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Csaba Vincze

We consider the unique Hermitian connection with totally skew-symmetric torsion on a Hermitian manifold. We prove that if the torsion is parallel and the holonomy is Sp(n)U(1), considered as a subgroup of U(2n) x U(1), then the manifold is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bogdan Alexandrov

Manifolds endowed with torsion and nonmetricity are interesting both from the physical and the mathematical points of view. In this paper, we generalize some results presented in the literature. We study Einstein manifolds (i.e., manifolds…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-19 Dietmar Silke Klemm , Lucrezia Ravera

In this article, we study Hermitian manifolds whose Bismut connection has parallel torsion, which will be called {\em Bismut torsion parallel manifolds,} or {\em BTP} manifolds for brevity. We obtain a necessary and sufficient condition…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Quanting Zhao , Fangyang Zheng

We compare the notions of metric-compatibility and torsion of a connection in the frameworks of Beggs-Majid and Mesland-Rennie. It follows that for $\ast$-preserving connections, compatibility with a real metric in the sense of Beggs-Majid…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Jyotishman Bhowmick , Bappa Ghosh , Satyajit Guin

We obtain a rigidity result for compact three-dimensional Heterotic solitons with parallel non-trivial torsion. We show that they are either hyperbolic three-manifolds or compact quotients of the Heisenberg group equipped with a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Andrei Moroianu , Miguel Pino Carmona , C. S. Shahbazi

Spacetime is a 4-dimensional connected Lorentzian manifold. In this paper, we extend the Levi-Civita connection in the definition of spacetime to the semi-symmetric non-metric connection and conclude geometric structures admitted by the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Siyao Liu , Yong Wang

Let $N$ be a Riemannian, Lorentzian or neutral $4$-dimensional space form with constant sectional curvature $L_0$. In this paper, noticing the linearly dependent condition, we obtain characterizations of space-like surfaces in $N$ with flat…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Naoya Ando , Ryusei Hatanaka

Motivated by the thermodynamics of black hole solutions conformal to stationary solutions, we study the geometric invariant theory of null hypersurfaces. It is well-known that a null hypersurface in a Lorentzian manifold can be treated as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-19 Samuel Blitz , David McNutt

We classify complex compact parallelizable manifolds which admit flat torsion free holomorphic affine connections. We exhibit complex compact manifolds admitting holomorphic affine connections, but no flat torsion free holomorphic affine…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-01-29 Sorin Dumitrescu

A {\em 2-Riemannian manifold} is a differentiable manifold exhibiting a 2-inner product on each tangent space. We first study lower dimensional 2-Riemannian manifolds by giving necessary and sufficient conditions for flatness. Afterward we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-11 C. A. Morales , M. Vilches

This articles is devoted to a description of the second-order differential geometry of torsion-free almost quaternionic skew-Hermitian manifolds, that is, of quaternionic skew-Hermitian manifolds $(M, Q, \omega)$. We provide a curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Ioannis Chrysikos , Vicente Cortés , Jan Gregorovič

A vector field on a Riemannian manifold is called conformal Killing if it generates one-parameter group of conformal transformations. The class of conformal Killing symmetric tensor fields of an arbitrary rank is a natural generalization of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-21 Nurlan S. Dairbekov , Vladimir A. Sharafutdinov

We descrive examples of metrics in the conformal class $[g]$ on complete conformally flat Riemannian manifolds $(M,g].$ These metrics have a constant scalar curvature and an harmonic curvature with non parallel Ricci tensor.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Raouf Chouikha

We give a simple interpretation of the adapted complex structure of Lempert-Szoke and Guillemin-Stenzel: it is given by a polar decomposition of the complexified manifold. We then give a twistorial construction of an SO(3)-invariant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Roger Bielawski

We show that a metric $f$-manifold $(M^{2n+s}, \phi, \xi_i, \eta_j, g)$ satisfying the property $[\xi_i, \xi_j]=0$ for all $i, j\in\{1, \ldots, s\}$ admits a metric connection $\nabla$ with skew-torsion $T$ preserving the structure if and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Aleksandra Borówka , Ioannis Chrysikos