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The Srní lectures on non-integrable geometries with torsion

Ilka Agricola (2006)

Archivum Mathematicum

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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...

On types of non-integrable geometrie

Friedrich, Thomas

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A G-structure on a Riemannian manifold is said to be integrable if it is preserved by the Levi-Civita connection. In the presented paper, the following non-integrable G-structures are studied: SO(3)-structures in dimension 5; almost complex structures in dimension 6; G 2 -structures in dimension 7; Spin(7)-structures in dimension 8; Spin(9)-structures in dimension 16 and F 4 -structures in dimension 26. G-structures admitting an affine connection with totally skew-symmetric torsion are characterized....

On the characteristic connection of gwistor space

Rui Albuquerque (2013)

Open Mathematics

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We give a brief presentation of gwistor spaces, which is a new concept from G 2 geometry. Then we compute the characteristic torsion T c of the gwistor space of an oriented Riemannian 4-manifold with constant sectional curvature k and deduce the condition under which T c is ∇c-parallel; this allows for the classification of the G 2 structure with torsion and the characteristic holonomy according to known references. The case of an Einstein base manifold is envisaged.