A class of metrics and foliations on tangent bundle of Finsler manifolds

Let (M,F) be a Finsler manifold, and let TM ₀ be the slit tangent bundle of M with a generalized Riemannian metric G, which is induced by F. In this paper, we extract many natural foliations of (TM ₀,G) and study their geometric properties. Next, we use this approach to obtain new characterizations of Finsler manifolds with positive constant flag curvature. We also investigate the relations between Levi-Civita connection, Cartan connection, Vaisman connection, vertical foliation, and Reinhart spaces.     

Metrics and Connections on the Bundle of Affinor Frames

In this paper the authors consider the bundle of affinor frames over a smooth manifold,define the Sasaki metric on this bundle,and investigate the Levi-Civita connection of Sasaki metric.Also the authors determine the horizontal lifts of symmetric linear connection from a manifold to the bundle of affinor frames and study the geodesic curves corresponding to the horizontal lift of the linear connection.     

Geometry of the Second-Order Tangent Bundles of Riemannian Manifolds

Let (M,g) be an n-dimensional Riemannian manifold and T2M be its secondorder tangent bundle equipped with a lift metric (g).In this paper,first,the authors construct some Riemannian almost product structures on (T2M,(g)) and present some results concerning these structures.Then,they investigate the curvature properties of (T2M,(g)).Finally,they study the properties of two metric connections with nonvanishing torsion on (T2 M,(g)):The H-lift of the Levi-Civita connection of g to T2 M,and the product conjugate connection defined by the Levi-Civita connection of (g) and an almost product structure.     

Cheeger-gromoll type metrics on the (1,1)-tensor bundles

Using a Riemannian metric on a differentiable manifold, a Cheeger-Gromoll type metric is introduced on the (1,1)-tensor bundle of the manifold. Then the Levi-Civita connection, Riemannian curvature tensor, Ricci tensor, scalar curvature and sectional curvature of this metric are calculated. Also, a para-Nordenian structure on the the (1,1)-tensor bundle with this metric is constructed and the geometric properties of this structure are studied.     

Integrability conditions for a certain class of nonlinear evolution equations and Kähler geometry

Multicomponent evolution equations associated with linear connections on complex manifolds are considered. It is proved that under some general assumptions an equation from this class is integrable by inverse scattering method if the corresponding linear connection is the Levi-Civita connection of an indefinite Kählerian metric of constant holomorphic sectional curvature. This result is based on a certain characterization of the above-mentioned Levi-Civita connections. It is shown that the obtained integrable equations are generalized ferromagnetics, and recurrent formulas for their local conservation laws are given.     

Symplectic curvature tensors

In the paper, one establishes the decomposition of the space of tensors which have the symmetries of the curvature of a torsionless symplectic connection into Sp (n)-irreducible components. This leads to three interesting classes of symplectic connections: flat, Ricci flat, and similar to the Levi-Civita connections of Kähler manifolds with constant holomorphic sectional curvature (we call them connections with reducible curvature). A symplectic manifold with two transversal polarizations has a canonical symplectic connection, and we study properties that are encountered if this canonical connection belongs to the classes mentioned above. For instance, in the reducible case we can compute the Pontrjagin classes, and these will be zero if the polarizations are real, etc. If the polarizations are real and there exist points where they are either singular or nontransversal, one has residues in the sense ofLehmann [L], which should be expected to play an interesting role in symplectic geometry.     

Canonical complex structures associated to connections and complexifications of Lie groups

The notion of adapted complex structure is extended from Riemannian manifolds to general Koszul connections. The case of the canonical connection of a Lie group and the Levi-Civita connection of a pseudo-Riemannian manifold is studied.Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 53C05, 53C22, 22E99, 32Q99Research partially supported by the Hungarian Scientific Foundation (OTKA) under grant T032478     

The Gauss-Bonnet theorem for vector bundles

We give a short proof of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for a real oriented Riemannian vector bundle E of even rank over a closed compact orientable manifold M. This theorem reduces to the classical Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem in the special case when M is a Riemannian manifold and E is the tangent bundle of M endowed with the Levi-Civita connection. The proof is based on an explicit geometric construction of the Thom class for 2-plane bundles. Dedicated to the memory of Philip Bell Research partially supported by NSF grant DMS-9703852.     

Geodesics of Sasakian Metrics on Tensor Bundles

On the basis of the phase completion the notion of vertical and horizontal lifts of vector fields is defined in the tensor bundles over a Riemannian manifold. Such a tensor bundle is made into a manifold with a Riemannian structure of special type by endowing it with Sasakian metric. The components of the Levi-Civita and other metric connections with respect to Sasakian metrics on tensor bundles with respect to the adapted frame are presented. This having been done, it is shown that it is possible to study geodesics of Sasakian metrics dealing with geodesics of the base manifolds. Dedicated to the memory of Vladimir Vishnevskii (1929-2007)     

The spectral sequence of the canonical foliation of a Vaisman manifold

In this paper we investigate the spectral sequence associated with a Riemannian foliation which arises naturally on a Vaisman manifold. Using the Betti numbers of the underlying manifold we establish a lower bound for the dimension of some terms of this cohomological object. This way we obtain cohomological obstructions for two-dimensional foliations to be induced from a Vaisman structure. We show that if the foliation is quasi-regular the lower bound is realized. In the final part of the paper we discuss two examples.     

Non-metricity in the continuum limit of randomly-distributed point defects

We present a homogenization theorem for isotropically-distributed point defects, by considering a sequence of manifolds with increasingly dense point defects. The loci of the defects are chosen randomly according to a weighted Poisson point process, making it a continuous version of the first passage percolation model. We show that the sequence of manifolds converges to a smooth Riemannian manifold, while the Levi-Civita connections converge to a non-metric connection on the limit manifold. Thus, we obtain rigorously the emergence of a non-metricity tensor, which was postulated in the literature to represent continuous distribution of point defects.     

A third order dispersive flow for closed curves into almost Hermitian manifolds

We discuss a short-time existence theorem of solutions to the initial value problem for a third order dispersive flow for closed curves into a compact almost Hermitian manifold. Our equations geometrically generalize a physical model describing the motion of vortex filament. The classical energy method cannot work for this problem since the almost complex structure of the target manifold is not supposed to be parallel with respect to the Levi-Civita connection. In other words, a loss of one derivative arises from the covariant derivative of the almost complex structure. To overcome this difficulty, we introduce a bounded pseudodifferential operator acting on sections of the pullback bundle, and eliminate the loss of one derivative from the partial differential equation of the dispersive flow.     

Vector bundles with holomorphic connection over a projective manifold with tangent bundle of nonnegative degree

For a projective manifold whose tangent bundle is of nonnegative degree, a vector bundle on it with a holomorphic connection actually admits a compatible flat holomorphic connection, if the manifold satisfies certain conditions. The conditions in question are on the Harder-Narasimhan filtration of the tangent bundle, and on the Neron-Severi group.

     

Invariant Tensors under the Twin Interchange of Norden Metrics on Almost Complex Manifolds

The object of study are almost complex manifolds with a pair of Norden metrics, mutually associated by means of the almost complex structure. More precisely, a torsion-free connection and tensors with geometric interpretation are found which are invariant under the twin interchange, i.e. the swap of the counterparts of the pair of Norden metrics and the corresponding Levi-Civita connections. A Lie group depending on four real parameters is considered as an example of a 4-dimensional manifold of the studied type. The mentioned invariant objects are found in an explicit form.     

Transformations of locally conformally Kähler manifolds

We consider several transformation groups of a locally conformally Kähler manifold and discuss their inter-relations. Among other results, we prove that all conformal vector fields on a compact Vaisman manifold which is neither locally conformally hyperkähler nor a diagonal Hopf manifold are Killing, holomorphic and that all affine vector fields with respect to the minimal Weyl connection of a locally conformally Kähler manifold which is neither Weyl-reducible nor locally conformally hyperkähler are holomorphic and conformal.     

Projective geometry on the bundle of volume forms

The bundle of volume forms on a manifold is examined in terms of the affine connection defined by T. Y. Thomas. The choice of a particular affine connection in the projective class corresponds to the choice of an horizontal distribution on this bundle. The geometric properties of the horizontal distributions are studied. Special lifts of vector fields and covariant tensor fields are examined as well as lifts of metric connections.     

Quantum Mechanics on Manifolds

In this paper, we investigate the relationships between quantum mechanics and the theory of partial differential equations. We closely follow the De Broglie and Schrödinger picture. Namely, we consider the well-known wave-particle duality as a relation between solutions of partial differential equations, describing waves, and singularities of solutions, that is particles. Our analysis of these relations shows that the necessary ingredients of any quantum mechanical picture are two connections. The first one is a connection in the tangent bundle of the configuration manifold and the second one is a connection in the trivial linear bundle.We also consider mechanical systems equipped with an inner structure and show that quantization of these systems requires a linear connection in the corresponding vector bundle.These are gravity and electromagnetic fields, or Yang–Mills fields if the configuration space is the Minkowski space. In the case of general mechanical systems, they should be considered as natural generalizations of these fields.Explicit formulas for quantizations of some mechanical systems and the corresponding star-products are given.     

关于流形上鞅的内向爆发

在本文中,我们构造了一个２维完备黎曼流形;其上的布朗运动是非内向爆发的,且存在一个对应于负Ｌｅｖｉ－Ｃｉｖｉｔａ联络的内向爆发鞅。此外,我们也考虑了布朗运动的非内向爆发。     

黎曼流形在正交联络下的全脐点子流形

本文研究了正交联络下子流形基本方程以及在全脐点子流形中的应用.利用Cartan的方法将挠率张量分解成三个部分,计算得到正交联络下的三个基本方程,并考虑一个特殊的正交联络,证明了其黎曼曲率会有类似于Levi-Civita联络下的性质.利用基本方程得到常曲率空间中的全脐点子流形的性质,推广了Levi-Civita联络下的相应结果.