Scalar curvature of defineable CAT-spaces.
We study the second order connections in the sense of C. Ehresmann. On a fibered manifold , such a connection is a section from into the second non-holonomic jet prolongation of . Our main aim is to extend the classical theory to the functional bundle of all smooth maps between the fibers over the same base point of two fibered manifolds over the same base. This requires several new geometric results about the second order connections on , which are deduced in the first part of the paper.
We consider cohomology defined by a system of local Lagrangian and investigate under which conditions the variational Lie derivative of associated local currents is a system of conserved currents. The answer to such a question involves Jacobi equations for the local system. Furthermore, we recall that it was shown by Krupka et al. that the invariance of a closed Helmholtz form of a dynamical form is equivalent with local variationality of the Lie derivative of the dynamical form; we remark that...
In this paper, we generalize the Gauduchon metrics on a compact complex manifold and define the functions on the space of its hermitian metrics.
This paper shows that the simplicial type of a finite simplicial complex is determined by its algebra of polynomial functions on the baricentric coordinates with coefficients in any integral domain. The link between and is done through certain admissible matrix associated to in a natural way. This result was obtained for the real numbers by I. V. Savel’ev [5], using methods of real algebraic geometry. D. Kan and E. Miller had shown in [2] that determines the homotopy type of the polyhedron...
We give a complete classification of germs of generic 2-distributions on 3-manifolds. By a 2-distribution we mean either a module generated by two vector fields (at singular points its dimension decreases) or a Pfaff equation, i.e. a module generated by a differential 1-form (at singular points the dimension of its kernel increases).
In this expository paper we present main results (from classical to recent) on local classification of smooth distributions.