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The Srní lectures on non-integrable geometries with torsion

Ilka Agricola (2006)

Archivum Mathematicum

This review article intends to introduce the reader to non-integrable geometric structures on Riemannian manifolds and invariant metric connections with torsion, and to discuss recent aspects of mathematical physics—in particular superstring theory—where these naturally appear. Connections with skew-symmetric torsion are exhibited as one of the main tools to understand non-integrable geometries. To this aim a a series of key examples is presented and successively dealt with using the notions of...

The structure of reachable sets for affine control systems induced by generalized Martinet sub-lorentzian metrics

Marek Grochowski (2012)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

In this paper we investigate analytic affine control systems q ˙ q̇ = X + uY, u ∈  [a,b] , where X,Y is an orthonormal frame for a generalized Martinet sub-Lorentzian structure of order k of Hamiltonian type. We construct normal forms for such systems and, among other things, we study the connection between the presence of the singular trajectory starting at q0 on the boundary of the reachable set from q0 with the minimal number of analytic functions needed for describing the reachable set from q0.

The structure tensor and first order natural differential operators

Piotr Kobak (1992)

Archivum Mathematicum

The notion of a structure tensor of section of first order natural bundles with homogeneous standard fibre is introduced. Properties of the structure tensor operator are studied. The universal factorization property of the structure tensor operator is proved and used for classification of first order * -natural differential operators D ̲ : T × T ̲ T ̲ for n 3 .

The symbol of a function of a pseudo-differential operator

Alfonso Gracia-saz (2005)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

We give an explicit formula for the symbol of a function of an operator. Given a pseudo-differential operator A ^ on L 2 ( N ) with symbol A 𝒞 ( T * N ) and a smooth function f , we obtain the symbol of f ( A ^ ) in terms of A . As an application, Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization rules are explicitly calculated at order 4 in .

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