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Structure of second-order symmetric Lorentzian manifolds

Oihane F. Blanco, Miguel Sánchez, José M. Senovilla (2013)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 - 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑦𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝐿𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑧𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 , that is to say, Lorentzian manifolds with vanishing second derivative R 0 of the curvature tensor R , are characterized by several geometric properties, and explicitly presented. Locally, they are a product M = M 1 × M 2 where each factor is uniquely determined as follows: M 2 is a Riemannian symmetric space and M 1 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., R 0 at some point), the curvature tensor turns out to...

Sub-Riemannian Metrics: Minimality of Abnormal Geodesics versus Subanalyticity

Andrei A. Agrachev, Andrei V. Sarychev (2010)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

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...

Super Wilson Loops and Holonomy on Supermanifolds

Josua Groeger (2014)

Communications in Mathematics

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 S -points. A key feature of our model is a supergeometric parallel transport, which allows for a natural notion of holonomy on...

Sur certains sous-ensembles de l'espace euclidien

Jean-Yves Charbonnel (1991)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

Soit 𝒜 ˜ m l’algèbre des fonctions sur R n engendrée par les fonctions polynomiales et les exponentielles de formes linéaires. La partie S de R n appartient à 𝒫 n si et seulement s’il existe m et F dans 𝒜 ˜ n + m pour lesquels S est l’image par la projection canonique de R n + m sur R n , de l’ensemble des zéros de F . Soit 𝒫 ˜ n le plus petit sous-ensemble de parties de R n qui contient 𝒫 n , l’adhérence de ses éléments et les images par la projection canonique de R n qui contient 𝒫 n , l’adhérence de ses éléments et les images par la...

Sur la densité des systèmes de Pfaff sans solution algébrique

Luis G. Mendes, Marcos Sebastiani (1994)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

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.

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