The phenomenon of determining a geometric structure on a manifold by the group of its automorphisms is a modern analogue of the basic ideas of the Erlangen Program of F. Klein. The author calls such diffeomorphism groups admissible and he describes them by imposing some axioms. The main result is the followingTheorem. Let $(M_i,{\alpha }_i)$, $i=1,2$, be a geometric structure such that its group of automorphisms $G(M_i,{\alpha }_i)$ satisfies either axioms 1, 2, 3 and 4, or axioms 1, 2, 3’, 4, 5, 6 and 7, and $M_i$ is compact, or axioms 1, 2,...

The author develops a $q$-analogue of Rota’s finite operator calculus in enumerative combinatorics.

Contrary to a statement of Borsuk the author proves that every locally plane Peano continuum is embeddable into a 2-manifold.

The author previously studied with F. Ilosvay and B. Kis [Publ. Math. 42, 139-144 (1993; Zbl 0796.53022)] the diffeomorphisms between two Finsler spaces $F^n=(M^n,L)$ and ${\overline{F}}^n=(M^n,\overline{L})$ which map the geodesics of $F^n$ to geodesics of ${\overline{F}}^n$ (geodesic mappings).Now, he investigates the geodesic mappings between a Finsler space $F^n$ and a Riemannian space ${\overline{ℝ}}^n$. The main result of this paper is as follows: if $F^n$ is of constant curvature $K$ and the mapping $F^n\to {\overline{ℝ}}^n$ is a strongly geodesic mapping then $K=0$ or $K\ne 0$ and $\overline{L}=e^{\varphi \left(x\right)}L$.

In this paper a Weil approach to quasijets is discussed. For given manifolds $M$ and $N$, a quasijet with source $x\in M$ and target $y\in N$ is a mapping $T_x^{r}M\to T_y^{r}N$ which is a vector homomorphism for each one of the $r$ vector bundle structures of the iterated tangent bundle $T^r$ [A. Dekrét, Casopis Pest. Mat. 111, No. 4, 345-352 (1986; Zbl 0611.58004)]. Let us denote by $Q{J}^r(M,N)$ the bundle of quasijets from $M$ to $N$; the space ${\tilde{J}}^r(M,N)$ of non-holonomic $r$-jets from $M$ to $N$ is embeded into $Q{J}^r(M,N)$. On the other hand, the bundle $Q{T}_m^{r}N$ of $(m,r)$-quasivelocities...

Let $G_{n,k}$ (${\tilde{G}}_{n,k}$) denote the Grassmann manifold of linear $k$-spaces (resp. oriented $k$-spaces) in ${ℝ}^n$, $d_{n,k}=k(n-k)=\text{dim}{G}_{n,k}$ and suppose $n\ge 2k$. As an easy consequence of the Steenrod obstruction theory, one sees that $(d_{n,k}+1)$-fold Whitney sum $(d_{n,k}+1){\xi }_{n,k}$ of the nontrivial line bundle ${\xi }_{n,k}$ over $G_{n,k}$ always has a nowhere vanishing section. The author deals with the following question: What is the least $s$ ($=s_{n,k}$) such that the vector bundle $s{\xi }_{n,k}$ admits a nowhere vanishing section ? Obviously, $s_{n,k}\le d_{n,k}+1$, and for the special case in which $k=1$, it is known that $s_{n,1}=d_{n,1}+1$. Using results...

The paper generalizes results of H. H. Hacisalihoglu and A. Kh. Amirov [Dokl. Akad. Nauk, Ross. Akad. Nauk 351, No. 3, 295-296 (1996; Zbl 0895.53038) and Sib. Mat. Zh. 39, No. 4, 1005-1012 (1998; Zbl 0913.53019)] on the existence and uniqueness of a Riemannian metric on a domain in ${ℝ}^n$ given prescribed values for some of the components of the Riemann curvature tensor and initial values of the metric and its partial derivatives. The authors establish the construction (existence and uniqueness) of a...

The article contains a list of 7 problems related to operads and configuration spaces. Problems 1-2 are about the compactification of configuration spaces (homology and Koszulness, geometric decompositions). Problems 3-4 are about configuration spaces related to knot invariants, their geometry and Koszulness. Problems 5 to 7 are related to (operadically defined) traces and cyclic homology.

Author’s abstract: “We introduce the concept of the flux homomorphism for regular Poisson manifolds. First we establish a one-to-one correspondence between Poisson diffeomorphisms close to $id$ and closed foliated 1-forms close to 0. This allows to show that the group of Poisson automorphisms is locally contractible and to define the flux locally. Then, by means of the foliated cohomology, we extend this local homomorphism to a global one”.

In this paper the authors compare two different approaches to the second order absolute differentiation of a fibered manifold (one of them was studied by the authors [Arch. Math., Brno 33, 23-35 (1997; Zbl 0910.53014)]. The main goal is the extension of one approach to connections on functional bundles of all smooth maps between the fibers of two fibered manifolds over the same base (we refer to the book “Natural Operations in Differential Geometry” [Springer, Berlin (1993; Zbl 0782.53013)] I. Kolar,...

The author considers the problem to give explicit descriptions for several types of bundles on smooth manifolds, naturally related with the bundle of $k$-dimensional velocities, or $k$-jets. In fact, this kind of bundles are very natural objects in differential geometry, mechanics and Lagrangian dynamics. For this the author considers Weil bundles that arose from Weil algebras. If a suitable combinatorial data is provided by a simplicial coloured structure, then the author describes the corresponding...

Authors’ abstract: “4-quasiplanar mappings of almost quaternionic spaces with affine connection without torsion are investigated. Geometrically motivated definitions of these mappings are presented. Based an these definitions, fundamental forms of these mappings are found, which are equivalent to the forms of 4-quasiplanar mappings introduced a priori by I. Kurbatova [Sov. Math. 30, 100-104 (1986; Zbl 0602.53029)]”.