Projective connections, double fibrations and formal neighbourhoods of lines.
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...