Strongly differentiable monoids with smooth boundary.
, that is to say, Lorentzian manifolds with vanishing second derivative of the curvature tensor , are characterized by several geometric properties, and explicitly presented. Locally, they are a product where each factor is uniquely determined as follows: is a Riemannian symmetric space and is either a constant-curvature Lorentzian space or a definite type of plane wave generalizing the Cahen–Wallach family. In the proper case (i.e., at some point), the curvature tensor turns out to...
We study sub-Riemannian (Carnot-Caratheodory) metrics defined by noninvolutive distributions on real-analytic Riemannian manifolds. We establish a connection between regularity properties of these metrics and the lack of length minimizing abnormal geodesics. Utilizing the results of the previous study of abnormal length minimizers accomplished by the authors in [Annales IHP. Analyse nonlinéaire 13, p. 635-690] we describe in this paper two classes of the germs of distributions (called 2-generating...
The classical Wilson loop is the gauge-invariant trace of the parallel transport around a closed path with respect to a connection on a vector bundle over a smooth manifold. We build a precise mathematical model of the super Wilson loop, an extension introduced by Mason-Skinner and Caron-Huot, by endowing the objects occurring with auxiliary Graßmann generators coming from -points. A key feature of our model is a supergeometric parallel transport, which allows for a natural notion of holonomy on...
Soit l’algèbre des fonctions sur engendrée par les fonctions polynomiales et les exponentielles de formes linéaires. La partie de appartient à si et seulement s’il existe et dans pour lesquels est l’image par la projection canonique de sur , de l’ensemble des zéros de . Soit le plus petit sous-ensemble de parties de qui contient , l’adhérence de ses éléments et les images par la projection canonique de qui contient , l’adhérence de ses éléments et les images par la...
On démontre que dans toute surface rationnelle, non-isomorphe au plan projectif, il existe une feuilletage analytique rigide, possédant des feuilles algébriques et n’ayant que des singularités isolées.