On the geodesic projection of connections
In this work we give a characterization of the projective invariant pseudometric , introduced by H. Wu, for a particular class of real -manifolds; in view of this result, we study the group of projective transformations for the same class of manifolds and we determine the integrated pseudodistance of in open convex regular cones of , endowed with the characteristic metric.
The aim of this work, which continues Part I with the same title, is to study a class of projective transformations of open, convex, regular cones in and to prove a structure theorem for affine transformations of a restricted class of cones; we conclude with a version of the Schwarz Lemma holding for affine transformations.
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...
Generalized planar curves (A-curves) are more general analogues of F-planar curves and geodesics. In particular, several well known geometries are described by more than one affinor. The best known example is the almost quaternionic geometry. A new approach to this topic (A-structures) was started in our earlier papers. In this paper we expand the concept of A-structures to projective A-structures.
Around 1923, Élie Cartan introduced affine connections on manifolds and defined the main related concepts: torsion, curvature, holonomy groups. He discussed applications of these concepts in Classical and Relativistic Mechanics; in particular he explained how parallel transport with respect to a connection can be related to the principle of inertia in Galilean Mechanics and, more generally, can be used to model the motion of a particle in a gravitational field. In subsequent papers, Élie Cartan...
We prove that the set of the -projective symmetries is a Lie algebra.