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On a new normalization for tractor covariant derivatives

Matthias Hammerl, Petr Somberg, Vladimír Souček, Josef Šilhan (2012)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

A regular normal parabolic geometry of type G / P on a manifold M gives rise to sequences D i of invariant differential operators, known as the curved version of the BGG resolution. These sequences are constructed from the normal covariant derivative ω on the corresponding tractor bundle V , where ω is the normal Cartan connection. The first operator D 0 in the sequence is overdetermined and it is well known that ω yields the prolongation of this operator in the homogeneous case M = G / P . Our first main result...

On inversions of van der Grinten projections

Tomáš Bayer, Milada Kočandrlová (2021)

Applications of Mathematics

Approximately 150 map projections are known, but the inverse forms have been published for only two-thirds of them. This paper focuses on finding the inverse forms of van der Grinten projections I--IV, both by non-linear partial differential equations and by the straightforward inverse of their projection equations. Taking into account the particular cases, new derivations of coordinate functions are also presented. Both the direct and inverse equations have the analytic form, are easy to implement...

Polarités définies par un triangle

Benoît Kloeckner (2010/2011)

Séminaire de théorie spectrale et géométrie

Une polarité d’un plan projectif est une application, souvent involutive, envoyant un point générique sur une droite générique et réciproquement. La polarité la plus classique est la polarité par rapport à une conique, mais d’autres existent : la polarité harmonique par rapport à un triangle, les polarités par rapport à une courbe algébrique de degré supérieur, la polarité par rapport à un convexe.Dans cet article nous introduisons une notion de polarité par rapport à un triangle du plan projectif,...

Projective relatedness and conformal flatness

Graham Hall (2012)

Open Mathematics

This paper discusses the connection between projective relatedness and conformal flatness for 4-dimensional manifolds admitting a metric of signature (+,+,+,+) or (+,+,+,−). It is shown that if one of the manifolds is conformally flat and not of the most general holonomy type for that signature then, in general, the connections of the manifolds involved are the same and the second manifold is also conformally flat. Counterexamples are provided which place limitations on the potential strengthening...

Projective spaces of second order.

Andrzej Miernowski, Witold Mozgawa (1997)

Collectanea Mathematica

Grassmannians of higher order appeared for the first time in a paper of A. Szybiak in the context of the Cartan method of moving frame. In the present paper we consider a special case of higher order Grassmannian, the projective space of second order. We introduce the projective group of second order acting on this space, derive its Maurer-Cartan equations and show that our generalized projective space is a homogeneous space of this group.

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