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This is the first part of a series of papers where we compute Euler characteristics, signatures, elliptic genera, and a number of other invariants of smooth manifolds that admit Riemannian metrics with positive sectional curvature and large…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Manuel Amann , Lee Kennard

Curvature properties of a metric connection with totally skew-symmetric torsion are investigated. It is shown that if either the 3-form $T$ is harmonic, $dT=\delta T=0$ or the curvature of the torsion connection $R\in S^2\Lambda^2$ then the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Stefan Ivanov , Nikola Stanchev

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 provide a step towards classifying Riemannian four-manifolds in which the curvature tensor has zero divergence, or -- equivalently -- the Ricci tensor Ric satisfies the Codazzi equation. Every known compact manifold of this type belongs…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Andrzej Derdzinski

Geometry is wavy: even at the purely geometric level (no particular theory chosen), curvature satisfies a covariant quasilinear wave equation. In Riemannian geometry equipped with the Levi-Civita connection, the Riemann curvature tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-27 Emel Altas , Bayram Tekin

The class of the hypercomplex pseudo-Hermitian manifolds is considered. The flatness of the considered manifolds with the 3 parallel complex structures is proved. Conformal transformations of the metrics are introduced. The conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-27 Kostadin Gribachev , Mancho Manev , Stancho Dimiev

In this article, we classify (non-compact) $3$-manifolds with uniformly positive scalar curvature. Precisely, we show that an oriented $3$-manifold has a complete metric with uniformly positive scalar curvature if and only if it is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Jian Wang

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

Let $M$ be a graph manifold such that each piece of its JSJ decomposition has the $\Bbb H^2 \times \Bbb R$ geometry. Assume that the pieces are glued by isometries. Then, there exists a complete Riemannian metric on $\Bbb R \times M$ which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Koji Fujiwara , Takashi Shioya

Following P. M. H. Wilson's paper on sectional curvatures of Kahler moduli, we consider a natural Riemannian metric on a hypersurface f=1 in a real vector space, defined using the Hessian of a homogeneous polynomial f. We give examples to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Burt Totaro

Biharmonic or polyharmonic curves and surfaces in 3-dimensional contact manifolds are investigated.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-19 Jun-ichi Inoguchi

In this paper, we first define the complexification of a real analytic map between real analytic Koszul manifolds and show that the complexified map is the holomorphic extension of the original map. Next we define an anti-Kaehler metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-07 Naoyuki Koike

We propose a generalization of two classes of Lie-Hamilton systems on the Euclidean plane to two-dimensional curved spaces, leading to novel Lie-Hamilton systems on Riemannian spaces (flat $2$-torus, product of hyperbolic lines, sphere and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Rutwig Campoamor-Stursberg , Oscar Carballal , Francisco J. Herranz

In this paper, we have reintroduced a new approach to conformal geometry developed and presented in two previous papers, in which we show that all n-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian metrics are conformal to a flat n-dimensional manifold as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-20 A. C. V. V. de Siqueira

We prove that if an orientable 3-manifold $M$ admits a complete Riemannian metric whose scalar curvature is positive and has a subquadratic decay at infinity, then it decomposes as a (possibly infinite) connected sum of spherical manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Florent Balacheff , Teo Gil Moreno de Mora Sardà , Stéphane Sabourau

We show that the group of smooth isometries of a complemented sub-Riemannian manifold form a Lie group and establish dimension estimates based on the torsion of the canonical connection. We explore the interaction of curvature and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-15 Robert K. Hladky

Hilbert's fourth problem seeks the classification of metric geometries where straight lines are shortest paths. Its regular case identifies the projectively flat Finsler manifolds. This broader framework breaks the equivalence between…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Benling Li , Wei Zhao

Measuring the similarity of curves is a fundamental problem arising in many application fields. There has been considerable interest in several such measures, both in Euclidean space and in more general setting such as curves on Riemannian…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-04-01 Erin Wolf Chambers , Yusu Wang

We study a class of design problems in solid mechanics, leading to a variation on the classical question of equi-dimensional embeddability of Riemannian manifolds. In this general new context, we derive a necessary and sufficient existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-13 Amit Acharya , Marta Lewicka , Mohammad Reza Pakzad

The Riemannian geometry is one of the main theoretical pieces in Modern Mathematics and Physics. The study of Riemann Geometry in the relevant literature is performed by using a well defined analytical path. Usually it starts from the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Juan Mendez