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On the geometrical properties of Heisenberg groups

Mehri Nasehi (2020)

Archivum Mathematicum

In [20] the existence of major differences about totally geodesic two-dimensional foliations between Riemannian and Lorentzian geometry of the Heisenberg group H 3 is proved. Our aim in this paper is to obtain a comparison on some other geometrical properties of these spaces. Interesting behaviours are found. Also the non-existence of left-invariant Ricci and Yamabe solitons and the existence of algebraic Ricci soliton in both Riemannian and Lorentzian cases are proved. Moreover, all of the descriptions...

On the geometry of convex reflectors

Vladimir I. Oliker (2002)

Banach Center Publications

In this paper we consider a special class of convex hypersurfaces in Euclidean space which arise as weak solutions to some inverse problems of recovering reflectors from scattering data. For this class of hypersurfaces we study the notion of the focal function which, while sharing the important convexity property with the classical support function, has the advantage of being exactly the "right tool" for such inverse problems. We also discuss briefly the close analogy between one such inverse problem...

On the geometry of frame bundles

Kamil Niedziałomski (2012)

Archivum Mathematicum

Let ( M , g ) be a Riemannian manifold, L ( M ) its frame bundle. We construct new examples of Riemannian metrics, which are obtained from Riemannian metrics on the tangent bundle T M . We compute the Levi–Civita connection and curvatures of these metrics.

On the geometry of Goursat structures

William Pasillas-Lépine, Witold Respondek (2001)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

A Goursat structure on a manifold of dimension n is a rank two distribution 𝒟 such that dim 𝒟 ( i ) = i + 2 , for 0 i n - 2 , where 𝒟 ( i ) denote the elements of the derived flag of 𝒟 , defined by 𝒟 ( 0 ) = 𝒟 and 𝒟 ( i + 1 ) = 𝒟 ( i ) + [ 𝒟 ( i ) , 𝒟 ( i ) ] . Goursat structures appeared first in the work of von Weber and Cartan, who have shown that on an open and dense subset they can be converted into the so-called Goursat normal form. Later, Goursat structures have been studied by Kumpera and Ruiz. In the paper, we introduce a new local invariant for Goursat structures, called...

On the Geometry of Goursat Structures

William Pasillas-Lépine, Witold Respondek (2010)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

A Goursat structure on a manifold of dimension n is a rank two distribution Ɗ such that dim Ɗ(i) = i + 2, for 0 ≤ i ≤ n-2, where Ɗ(i) denote the elements of the derived flag of Ɗ, defined by Ɗ(0) = Ɗ and Ɗ(i+1) = Ɗ(i) + [Ɗ(i),Ɗ(i)] . Goursat structures appeared first in the work of von Weber and Cartan, who have shown that on an open and dense subset they can be converted into the so-called Goursat normal form. Later, Goursat structures have been studied by Kumpera and Ruiz. In the paper, we introduce...

On the geometry of some para-hypercomplex Lie groups

H. R. Salimi Moghaddam (2009)

Archivum Mathematicum

In this paper, firstly we study some left invariant Riemannian metrics on para-hypercomplex 4-dimensional Lie groups. In each Lie group, the Levi-Civita connection and sectional curvature have been given explicitly. We also show these spaces have constant negative scalar curvatures. Then by using left invariant Riemannian metrics introduced in the first part, we construct some left invariant Randers metrics of Berwald type. The explicit formulas for computing flag curvature have been obtained in...

On the geometry of some solvable extensions of the Heisenberg group

Mehri Nasehi, Mansour Aghasi (2018)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

In this paper we first classify left-invariant generalized Ricci solitons on some solvable extensions of the Heisenberg group in both Riemannian and Lorentzian cases. Then we obtain the exact form of all left-invariant unit time-like vector fields which are spatially harmonic. We also calculate the energy of an arbitrary left-invariant vector field X on these spaces and obtain all vector fields which are critical points for the energy functional restricted to vector fields of the same length. Furthermore,...

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