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Horizontal lift of symmetric connections to the bundle of volume forms ν

Anna Gąsior (2010)

Annales UMCS, Mathematica

In this paper we present the horizontal lift of a symmetric affine connection with respect to another affine connection to the bundle of volume forms ν and give formulas for its curvature tensor, Ricci tensor and the scalar curvature. Next, we give some properties of the horizontally lifted vector fields and certain infinitesimal transformations. At the end, we consider some substructures of a F(3, 1)-structure on ν.

Hörmander systems and harmonic morphisms

Elisabetta Barletta (2003)

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze

Given a Hörmander system X = { X 1 , , X m } on a domain Ω 𝐑 n we show that any subelliptic harmonic morphism φ from Ω into a ν -dimensional riemannian manifold N is a (smooth) subelliptic harmonic map (in the sense of J. Jost & C-J. Xu, [9]). Also φ is a submersion provided that ν m and X has rank m . If Ω = 𝐇 n (the Heisenberg group) and X = 1 2 L α + L α ¯ , 1 2 i L α - L α ¯ , where L α ¯ = / z ¯ α - i z α / t is the Lewy operator, then a smooth map φ : Ω N is a subelliptic harmonic morphism if and only if φ π : ( C ( 𝐇 n ) , F θ 0 ) N is a harmonic morphism, where S 1 C ( 𝐇 n ) π 𝐇 n is the canonical circle bundle and F θ 0 is the Fefferman...

How Charles Ehresmann's vision of geometry developed with time

Andrée C. Ehresmann (2007)

Banach Center Publications

In the mid fifties, Charles Ehresmann defined Geometry as "the theory of more or less rich structures, in which algebraic and topological structures are generally intertwined". In 1973 he defined it as the theory of differentiable categories, their actions and their prolongations. Here we explain how he progressively formed this conception, from homogeneous spaces to locally homogeneous spaces, to fibre bundles and foliations, to a general notion of local structures, and to a new foundation of differential...

How many are affine connections with torsion

Zdeněk Dušek, Oldřich Kowalski (2014)

Archivum Mathematicum

The question how many real analytic affine connections exist locally on a smooth manifold M of dimension n is studied. The families of general affine connections with torsion and with skew-symmetric Ricci tensor, or symmetric Ricci tensor, respectively, are described in terms of the number of arbitrary functions of n variables.

How to produce a Ricci flow via Cheeger–Gromoll exhaustion

Esther Cabezas-Rivas, Burkhard Wilking (2015)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

We prove short time existence for the Ricci flow on open manifolds of non-negative complex sectional curvature without requiring upper curvature bounds. By considering the doubling of convex sets contained in a Cheeger–Gromoll convex exhaustion and solving the singular initial value problem for the Ricci flow on these closed manifolds, we obtain a sequence of closed solutions of the Ricci flow with non-negative complex sectional curvature which subconverge to a Ricci flow on the open manifold. Furthermore,...

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