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On the geometry of Goursat structures

William Pasillas-Lépine, Witold Respondek (2001)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

A Goursat structure on a manifold of dimension n is a rank two distribution 𝒟 such that dim 𝒟 ( i ) = i + 2 , for 0 i n - 2 , where 𝒟 ( i ) denote the elements of the derived flag of 𝒟 , defined by 𝒟 ( 0 ) = 𝒟 and 𝒟 ( i + 1 ) = 𝒟 ( i ) + [ 𝒟 ( i ) , 𝒟 ( i ) ] . Goursat structures appeared first in the work of von Weber and Cartan, who have shown that on an open and dense subset they can be converted into the so-called Goursat normal form. Later, Goursat structures have been studied by Kumpera and Ruiz. In the paper, we introduce a new local invariant for Goursat structures, called...

On the Geometry of Goursat Structures

William Pasillas-Lépine, Witold Respondek (2010)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

A Goursat structure on a manifold of dimension n is a rank two distribution Ɗ such that dim Ɗ(i) = i + 2, for 0 ≤ i ≤ n-2, where Ɗ(i) denote the elements of the derived flag of Ɗ, defined by Ɗ(0) = Ɗ and Ɗ(i+1) = Ɗ(i) + [Ɗ(i),Ɗ(i)] . Goursat structures appeared first in the work of von Weber and Cartan, who have shown that on an open and dense subset they can be converted into the so-called Goursat normal form. Later, Goursat structures have been studied by Kumpera and Ruiz. In the paper, we introduce...

On the geometry of some para-hypercomplex Lie groups

H. R. Salimi Moghaddam (2009)

Archivum Mathematicum

In this paper, firstly we study some left invariant Riemannian metrics on para-hypercomplex 4-dimensional Lie groups. In each Lie group, the Levi-Civita connection and sectional curvature have been given explicitly. We also show these spaces have constant negative scalar curvatures. Then by using left invariant Riemannian metrics introduced in the first part, we construct some left invariant Randers metrics of Berwald type. The explicit formulas for computing flag curvature have been obtained in...

On the Hilbert scheme of points of an almost complex fourfold

Claire Voisin (2000)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

If S is a complex surface, one has for each k the Hilbert scheme Hilb k ( S ) , which is a desingularization of the symmetric product S ( k ) . Here we construct more generally a differentiable variety Hilb k ( X ) endowed with a stable almost complex structure, for every almost complex fourfold X . Hilb k ( X ) is a desingularization of the symmetric product X ( k ) .

On weakly cyclic Ricci symmetric manifolds

A. A. Shaikh, Sanjib Kumar Jana (2006)

Annales Polonici Mathematici

We introduce a type of non-flat Riemannian manifolds called weakly cyclic Ricci symmetric manifolds and study their geometric properties. The existence of such manifolds is shown by several non-trivial examples.

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