H-contact unit tangent sphere bundles of Riemannian manifolds

A contact metric manifold is said to be H-contact, if its characteristic vector field is harmonic. We prove that the unit tangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold M equipped with the standard contact metric structure is H-contact if and only if M is 2-stein.     

Finsler generalization of the Tamm metric

We study manifolds of the Finsler type whose tangent (pseudo-)Riemannian spaces are invariant under the (pseudo)orthogonal group. We construct the Cartan connection and study geodesics, extremals, and also motions. We establish that if the metric tensor of the space is a homogeneous tensor of the zeroth order with respect to the coordinates of the tangent vector, then the metric of the tangent space is realized on a cone of revolution. We describe the structure of geodesics on the cone as trajectories of motion of a free particle in a central field.     

Notes on the Sasaki metric

We survey on the geometry of the tangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold, endowed with the classical metric established by S. Sasaki 60 years ago. Following the results of Sasaki, we try to write and deduce them by different means. Questions of vector fields, mainly those arising from the base, are related as invariants of the classical metric, contact and Hermitian structures. Attention is given to the natural notion of extension or complete lift of a vector field, from the base to the tangent manifold. Few results are original, but finally new equations of the mirror map are considered.     

Maximally movable spaces of Finsler type and their generalization

In this paper, we consider some generalization of maximally movable spaces of Finsler type. Among them, there are locally conic spaces (Riemannian metrics of their tangent spaces are realized on circular cones) and generalized Lagrange spaces with Tamm metrics (their tangent Riemannian spaces admit all rotations). On the tangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold, we study a special class of almost product metrics, generated Tamm metric. This class contains Sasaki metric and Cheeger–Gromol metric. We determine the position of this class in the Naveira classification of Riemannian almost product metrics.     

On applications of the Taylor formula in some quasispaces

We consider some metric spaces with quasimetric (quasispaces) comprising uniformly regular (equiregular) Carnot — Carathéodory quasispaces whose quasimetric is induced by C ^ϒ−1-smooth vector fields of formal degree not higher than ϒ. For these spaces, some analogues of the Campbell — Hausdorff formula are derived, which allows us to prove a theorem on a nilpotent tangent cone, a theorem on isomorphism of various nilpotent tangent cones defined at a common point, and a local approximation theorem.     

When are the tangent sphere bundles of a Riemannian manifold reducible?

We determine all Riemannian manifolds for which the tangent sphere bundles, equipped with the Sasaki metric, are local or global Riemannian product manifolds.

     

On tangent cones of Alexandrov spaces with curvature bounded below

The tangent cones of an inner metric Alexandrov space with finite Hausdorff dimension and a lower curvature bound are always inner metric spaces with nonnegative curvature. In this paper we construct an infinite-dimensional inner metric Alexandrov space of nonnegative curvature which has in one point a tangent cone whose metric is not an inner metric. Received: 20 October 1999 / Revised version: 8 May 2000     

On geometric vector fields of Minkowski spaces and their applications

As it is well-known, a Minkowski space is a finite dimensional real vector space equipped with a Minkowski functional F. By the help of its second order partial derivatives we can introduce a Riemannian metric on the vector space and the indicatrix hypersurface S:=F⁻¹(1) can be investigated as a Riemannian submanifold in the usual sense.Our aim is to study affine vector fields on the vector space which are, at the same time, affine with respect to the Funk metric associated with the indicatrix hypersurface. We give an upper bound for the dimension of their (real) Lie algebra and it is proved that equality holds if and only if the Minkowski space is Euclidean. Criteria of the existence is also given in lower dimensional cases. Note that in case of a Euclidean vector space the Funk metric reduces to the standard Cayley-Klein metric perturbed with a nonzero 1-form.As an application of our results we present the general solution of Matsumoto's problem on conformal equivalent Berwald and locally Minkowski manifolds. The reasoning is based on the theory of harmonic vector fields on the tangent spaces as Riemannian manifolds or, in an equivalent way, as Minkowski spaces. Our main result states that the conformal equivalence between two Berwald manifolds must be trivial unless the manifolds are Riemannian.     

Ricci curvature of Markov chains on metric spaces

We define the coarse Ricci curvature of metric spaces in terms of how much small balls are closer (in Wasserstein transportation distance) than their centers are. This definition naturally extends to any Markov chain on a metric space. For a Riemannian manifold this gives back, after scaling, the value of Ricci curvature of a tangent vector. Examples of positively curved spaces for this definition include the discrete cube and discrete versions of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. Moreover this generalization is consistent with the Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature for Brownian motion with a drift on a Riemannian manifold.Positive Ricci curvature is shown to imply a spectral gap, a Lévy-Gromov-like Gaussian concentration theorem and a kind of modified logarithmic Sobolev inequality. The bounds obtained are sharp in a variety of examples.     

Optimality Conditions in Semidefinite Programming

Semidefinite positiveness of operators on Euclidean spaces is characterized. Using this characterization, we compute in a direct way the first-order and second-order tangent sets to the cone of semidefinite positive operators on such a space. These characterizations are useful for optimality conditions in semidefinite programming.     

Unit Tangent Sphere Bundles and Two-Point Homogeneous Spaces

We characterize two-point homogeneous spaces, locally symmetric spaces, C and B-spaces via properties of the standard contact metric structure of their unit tangent sphere bundle. Further, under various conditions on a Riemannian manifold, we show that its unit tangent sphere bundle is a (locally) homogeneous contact metric space if and only if the manifold itself is (locally) isometric to a two-point homogeneous space.     

Benson真有效意义下集值优化的广义最优性条件

本文引入了关于集值映射的α-阶Clarke切导数、α-阶邻接切导数及α-阶 伴随切导数的概念,借此建立了约束向量集值优化Benson真有效解导数型的Kuhn- Tucker条件.     

New results on the geometry of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces

We briefly survey our recent results about the Mumford goodness of several canonical metrics on the moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces,including the Weil-Petersson metric,the Ricci metric, the Perturbed Ricci metric and the Kahler-Einstein metric.We prove the dual Nakano negativity of the Weil-Petersson metric.As applications of these results we deduce certain important results about the L~2-cohomology groups of the logarithmic tangent bundle over the compactifled moduli spaces.     

GLOBAL TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF HOMOGENEOUS VECTOR FIELDS IN {\tf R}$^{^{\hbox{\normal 3}}}$

In this paper, the authors prove that the flows of homogeneous vector field $Q(x)$ at infinity are topologically equivalent to the flows of the tangent vector field $Q_T(u)$ $(u\in S^2)$ on the sphere $S^2$, and show the theorems for the global topological classification of $Q(x)$. They derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for the global asymptotic stability and the boundedness of vector field $Q(x),$ and obtain the criterion for the global topological equivalence of two homogeneous vector fields.     

Totally skew embeddings of manifolds

We study a version of Whitney’s embedding problem in projective geometry: What is the smallest dimension of an affine space that can contain an n-dimensional submanifold without any pairs of parallel or intersecting tangent lines at distinct points? This problem is related to the generalized vector field problem, existence of non-singular bilinear maps, and the immersion problem for real projective spaces. We use these connections and other methods to obtain several specific and general bounds for the desired dimension.     

Some applications of the KKM-mapping principle in hyperconvex metric spaces

In 1996 Khamsi proved a result in hyperconvex metric spaces which is an analogue of the famous KKM-maps principle proved by Ky Fan in 1972 for topological vector spaces.In this note, using the above result due to Khamsi, we establish two results in hyperconvex metric spaces which are analogues of the famous Ky Fan inequality and Sion minimax theorem proved for topological vector spaces in 1972 and 1958, respectively.     

一类平面三次拟齐次向量场的全局拓扑结构

利用中心投影变换的思想证明一类平面三次拟齐次向量场的几何性质依赖于它的切向量场和诱导向量场.讨论了该系统的拓扑结构,并进行了分类;证明了该系统具有25类不同类的拓扑结构相图.     

On an equivalence of topological vector space valued cone metric spaces and metric spaces

Scalarization method is an important tool in the study of vector optimization as corresponding solutions of vector optimization problems can be found by solving scalar optimization problems. Recently this has been applied by Du (2010) [14] to investigate the equivalence of vectorial versions of fixed point theorems of contractive mappings in generalized cone metric spaces and scalar versions of fixed point theorems in general metric spaces in usual sense. In this paper, we find out that the topology induced by topological vector space valued cone metric coincides with the topology induced by the metric obtained via a nonlinear scalarization function, i.e any topological vector space valued cone metric space is metrizable, prove a completion theorem, and also obtain some more results in topological vector space valued cone normed spaces.     

Conformal vector fields with respect to the Sasaki metric tensor

The purpose of this article is to characterize conformal vector fields with respect to the Sasaki metric tensor field on the tangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold of dimension at least three. In particular, if the manifold in question is compact, it is found that the only conformal vector fields are Killing vector fields.     

A characterization of Hyers-Lang differentiability in terms of a tangent cone

We introduce the notion of Hyers-Lang tangent cone to a subset of a topological vector space, and give a characterization, for the case of locally convex topological vector spaces, of Hyers-Lang differentiability in terms of the Hyers-Lang tangent cone to the graph.