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A Riemannian manifold is called Weyl homogeneous, if its Weyl tensors at any two points are "the same", up to a positive multiple. A Weyl homogeneous manifold is modeled on a homogeneous space $M_0$, if its Weyl tensor at every point is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-31 Y. Nikolayevsky

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

Let $(M,g)$ be a smooth compact Riemannian manifold of dimension $n$ with smooth boundary $\partial M$, admitting a scalar-flat conformal metric. We prove that the supremum of the isoperimetric ratio over the scalar-flat conformal class is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-04 Xuezhang Chen , Tianling Jin , Yuping Ruan

We study conformal product structures on compact reducible Riemannian manifolds, and show that under a suitable technical assumption, the underlying Riemannian mani\-folds are either conformally flat, or triple products, \emph{i.e.} locally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Andrei Moroianu , Mihaela Pilca

We use a new method to give conditions for the existence of a local isometric immersion of a Riemannian $n$-manifold $M$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n+k}$, for a given $n$ and $k$. These equate to the (local) existence of a $k$-tuple of scalar fields…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Dan Gregorian Fodor

We conjecture that any scalar-flat K\"ahler surface in which the Weyl tensor acting on 2-forms annihilates the Ricci form must be either Ricci-flat or locally isometric to a Riemannian product of two real surfaces with mutually opposite…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Andrzej Derdzinski , Sinhwi Kim , JeongHyeong Park

A manifold is locally \emph{$k$-fold symmetric}, if for any point and any $k$-dimensional vector subspace tangent to this point there exists a local isometry such that this point is a fixed point and the differential of the isometry…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-05 Shaoqiang Deng , Vladimir S. Matveev

We study complex 4-manifolds with holomorphic self-dual conformal structures, and we obtain an interpretation of the Weyl tensor of such a manifold as the projective curvature of a field of cones on the ambitwistor space. In particular, its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 F. A. Belgun

Using twistor methods, we explicitly construct all local forms of four--dimensional real analytic neutral signature anti--self--dual conformal structures $(M,[g])$ with a null conformal Killing vector. We show that $M$ is foliated by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Maciej Dunajski , Simon West

We exhibit two three-parameter families of locally conformal symplectic forms on the solvmanifold $M_{n,k}$ considered in [1], and show, using the Hodge-de Rham theory for the Lichnerowicz cohomology that that they are not $d_{\omega}$…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Augustin Banyaga

Let $(\Sigma_1,g_1)$ and $(\Sigma_2,g_2)$ be connected, complete and orientable Riemannian two manifolds. Consider the two canonical K\"ahler structures $(G^{\epsilon},J,\Omega^{\epsilon})$ on the product 4-manifold $\Sigma_1\times\Sigma_2$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Nikos Georgiou

The \emph{flat deformation theorem} states that given a semi-Riemannian analytic metric $g$ on a manifold, locally there always exists a two-form $F$, a scalar function $c$, and an arbitrarily prescribed scalar constraint depending on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-20 Josep Llosa , Jaume Carot

Let $(M,g)$ be a smooth compact Riemannian manifold of dimension $n$ with smooth boundary $\partial M$. Suppose that $(M,g)$ admits a scalar-flat conformal metric. We prove that the supremum of the isoperimetric quotient over the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Tianling Jin , Jingang Xiong

In this paper, we study a three-dimensional Ricci-degenerate Riemannian manifold $(M^3,g)$ that admits a smooth nonzero solution $f$ to the equation \begin{align} \label{a1a} \nabla df=\psi Rc+\phi g, \end{align} where $\psi,\phi$ are given…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Jinwoo Shin

I discuss geometry and normal forms for pseudo-Riemannian metrics with parallel spinor fields in some interesting dimensions. I also discuss the interaction of these conditions for parallel spinor fields with the condition that the Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Robert L. Bryant

A statistical manifold $\left(M,D,g\right)$ is a manifold $M$ endowed with a torsion-free connection $D$ and a Riemannian metric $g$ such that the tensor $D g$ is totally symmetric. If $D$ is flat then $\left(M,g,D\right)$ is a Hessian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Pavel Osipov

Let N be a symmetric space of dimension n > 5 whose de Rham decomposition contains no factors of constant curvature and let W be the Weyl tensor of N at some point. We prove that a Riemannian manifold whose Weyl tensor at every point is a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Yuri Nikolayevsky

We study Riemannian manifolds carrying a metric connection with parallel, skew-symmetric and closed torsion, which we call in short PSCT manifolds. We prove that PSCT manifolds always locally split into a product of well-understood factors,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Andrei Moroianu , Paul Schwahn

Weyl geometry is a natural extension of conformal geometry with Weyl covariance mediated by a Weyl connection. We generalize the Fefferman-Graham (FG) ambient construction for conformal manifolds to a corresponding construction for Weyl…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-26 Weizhen Jia , Manthos Karydas , Robert G. Leigh

It is proved that every locally conformal flat Riemannian manifold all of whose Jacobi operators have constant eigenvalues along every geodesic is with constant principal Ricci curvatures. A local classification (up to an isometry) of…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Stefan Ivanov , Irina Petrova