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New examples of harmonic unit vector fields on hyperbolic 3-space are constructed by exploiting the reduction of symmetry arising from the foliation by horospheres. This is compared and contrasted with the analogous construction in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-12-31 C. M. Wood

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 study harmonic sections of a Riemannian vector bundle whose total space is equipped with a 2-parameter family of metrics which includes both the Sasaki and Cheeger-Gromoll metrics. This enables the theory of harmonic unit sections to be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. Benyounes , E. Loubeau , C. M. Wood

In this Note we establish a relation between sections in globally generated holomorphic vector bundles on K\"ahler manifolds, isotropic with respect to a non-degenerate quadratic form, and totally geodesic foliations on Euclidean open…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Monica Alice Aprodu , Marian Aprodu

We investigate the geometry of holomorphic vector bundles $E$ over a Riemann surface $C$ together with a section of the endomorphism bundle tensored with $K^{1/2}$ -- a square root of the canonical bundle $K$. These parallel to some extent…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Nigel Hitchin

Let $G/H$ be a Riemannian homogeneous space. For an orthogonal representation $\phi$ of $H$ on the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{k+1}$, there corresponds the vector bundle $E=G\times_{\phi}\mathbb{R}^{k+1} \to G/H$ with fiberwise inner…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Nobuhiko Otoba , Jimmy Petean

Rotation minimizing vector fields and frames were introduced by Bishop as an alternative to the Frenet frame. They are used in CAGD because they can be defined even the curvature vanishes. Nevertheless, many other geometric properties have…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Fernando Etayo

We study the global geometry of surfaces in Sasakian space forms whose mean curvature vector is parallel in the normal bundle (these include the Riemannian Heisenberg space of dimension $2n+1$). We prove a codimension reduction theorem. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-02 Dorel Fetcu , Harold Rosenberg

We study the Lie algebra of infinitesimal isometries on compact Sasakian and K--contact manifolds. On a Sasakian manifold which is not a space form or 3--Sasakian, every Killing vector field is an infinitesimal automorphism of the Sasakian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Florin Belgun , Andrei Moroianu , Uwe Semmelmann

We construct, in classical two-time physics, the necessary structure for the most general configuration space formulation of quantum mechanics containing gravity in d+2 dimensions. This structure is composed of a symmetric Riemannian metric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 W. Chagas-Filho

We show that any $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold with constant negative sectional curvature admits local orthonormal vector fields such that one of them $v_1$ is tangent to geodesics and the other $n-1$ vector fields are tangent to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Keti Tenenblat , Alice Barbora Tumpach

We propose a special deformation of the Sasaki metric on tangent and unit tangent bundle of a Hermitian locally symmetric manifold. Geodesics of this deformed metric have different projections on a base manifold for tangent or unit tangent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-25 Alexander Yampolsky

We study moduli spaces of vector bundles on a two-dimensional neighbourhood $Z_k$ of an irreducible curve $\ell = CP^1$ with $\ell^2 = -k$ and give an explicit construction of these moduli as stratified spaces. We give sharp bounds for the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-04 Edoardo Ballico , Elizabeth Gasparim , Thomas Köppe

It is well-known that if a curve is a geodesic line of the tangent (sphere) bundle with Sasaki metric of a locally symmetric Riemannian manifold then the projected curve has all its geodesic curvatures constant. In this paper we consider…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yelena Saharova , Alexander Yampolsky

Infinitesimal symmetries of $S^1$-bundle gerbes are modelled with multiplicative vector fields on Lie groupoids. It is shown that a connective structure on a bundle gerbe gives rise to a natural horizontal lift of multiplicative vector…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Derek Krepski , Jennifer Vaughan

We investigate the geometry of the moduli spaces $\mathscr{M}_{\HE}^*(M^{2n})$ of Hermitian-Einstein irreducible connections on a vector bundle $E$ over a K\"ahler with torsion (KT) manifold $M^{2n}$ that admits holomorphic and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-28 Georgios Papadopoulos

Aguilar introduced isotropic almost complex structures $J_{\delta , \sigma}$ on the tangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$. In this paper, some results will be obtained on the integrability of these structures. These structures…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-30 Amir Baghban , Esmaeil Abedi

We define and make an initial study of (even) Riemannian supermanifolds equipped with a homological vector field that is also a Killing vector field. We refer to such supermanifolds as Riemannian Q-manifolds. We show that such Q-manifolds…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Andrew James Bruce

We study $2$-dimensional unit vector flows on graphs, that is, nowhere-zero flows that assign to each oriented edge a unit vector in $\mathbb R^{3}$. We give a new geometric characterization of $\mathbb S^{2}$-flows on cubic graphs. We also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Hussein Houdrouge , Bobby Miraftab , Pat Morin

In 1970, Samuel I. Goldberg and Kentaro Yano defined the notion of noninvariant hypersurface of a Sasakian manifold [1]. In this paper we have studied the properties of parallel vector fields with respect to induced connection on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-12 Sachin Kumar Srivastava , Alok Kumar Srivastava , Dhruwa Narain