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On the topological charge conservation in the three-dimensional O ( 3 ) σ -model.

Jaroslav Dittrich (1984)

Aplikace matematiky

A field of three-component unit vectors on the 2 + 1 dimensional spacetime is considered. Two field configurations with different values of the topological charge cannot be connected by the path of field configurations with a finite Euclidean action. Therefore there is no transition between them. The initial and final configurations are assumed to be continuous at infinity. The asymptotic behaviour of intermediate configurations may be arbitrary. The proof is based on the properties of the degree of...

On the topology of positively curved Bazaikin spaces

Luis A. Florit, Wolfgang Ziller (2009)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

We explore some aspects of the topology of the family of 13-dimensional Bazaikin spaces. Using the computation of their homology rings, Pontryagin classes and linking forms, we show that there is only one Bazaikin space that is homotopy equivalent to a homogeneous space, i.e., the Berger space. Moreover, it is easily shown that there are only finitely many Bazaikin spaces in each homeomorphism type and that there are only finitely many positively curved ones for a given cohomology ring. In fact,...

On Uniqueness Theoremsfor Ricci Tensor

Marina B. Khripunova, Sergey E. Stepanov, Irina I. Tsyganok, Josef Mikeš (2016)

Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis. Facultas Rerum Naturalium. Mathematica

In Riemannian geometry the prescribed Ricci curvature problem is as follows: given a smooth manifold M and a symmetric 2-tensor r , construct a metric on M whose Ricci tensor equals r . In particular, DeTurck and Koiso proved the following celebrated result: the Ricci curvature uniquely determines the Levi-Civita connection on any compact Einstein manifold with non-negative section curvature. In the present paper we generalize the result of DeTurck and Koiso for a Riemannian manifold with non-negative...

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