Ricci and Matter Collineations of Locally Rotationally Symmetric Space-Times

A new method is presented for the determination of Ricci Collineations (RC) and Matter Collineations (MC) of a given spacetime, in the cases where the Ricci tensor and the energy momentum tensor are non-degenerate and have a similar form with the metric. This method reduces the problem of finding the RCs and the MCs to that of determining the KVs whereas at the same time uses already known results on the motions of the metric. We employ this method to determine all hypersurface homogeneous locally rotationally symmetric spacetimes, which admit proper RCs and MCs. We also give the corresponding collineation vectors. These results conclude a long due open problem, which has been considered many times partially in the literature.     

A compactness result for Kähler Ricci solitons

In this paper we prove a compactness result for compact Kähler Ricci gradient shrinking solitons. If (Mi,gi) is a sequence of Kähler Ricci solitons of real dimension n?4, whose curvatures have uniformly bounded Ln/2 norms, whose Ricci curvatures are uniformly bounded from below and μ(gi,1/2)?A (where μ is Perelman's functional), there is a subsequence (Mi,gi) converging to a compact orbifold (M_∞,g_∞) with finitely many isolated singularities, where g_∞ is a Kähler Ricci soliton metric in an orbifold sense (satisfies a soliton equation away from singular points and smoothly extends in some gauge to a metric satisfying Kähler Ricci soliton equation in a lifting around singular points).     

On quasi-conformally flat weakly Ricci symmetric manifolds

The object of the present paper is to study quasi-conformally flat weakly Ricci symmetric manifolds.      

Comment: Towards a Complete Classification of Spherically Symmetric Lorentzian Manifolds According to Their Ricci Collineations

General expressions for the components of the Ricci collineation vector are derived and the related constraints are obtained. These constraints are then solved to obtain Ricci collineations and the related constraints on the Ricci tensor components for all spacetime manifolds (degenerate or non-degenerate, diagonal or non-diagonal) admitting symmetries larger than so(3) and already known results are recovered. A complete solution is achieved for the spacetime manifolds admitting so(3) as the maximal symmetry group with non-degenerate and non diagonal Ricci tensor components. It is interesting to point out that there appear cases with finite number of Ricci collineations although the Ricci tensor is degenerate and also the cases with infinitely many Ricci collineations even in the case of non-degenerate Ricci tensor. Interestingly, it is found that the spacetime manifolds with so(3) as maximal symmetry group may admit two extra proper Ricci collineations, although they do not admit a G ₅ as the maximal symmetry group. Examples are provided which show and clarify some comments made by Camci et al. [Camci, U., and Branes, A. (2002). Class. Quantum Grav. 19, 393–404]. Theorems are proved which correct the earlier claims made in [Carot, J., Nunez, L. A., and Percoco, U. (1997). Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 29, 1223–1237; Contreras, G., Núñez, L. A., and Percolo, U. (2000). Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 32, 285–294].     

Canonical Connections and Algebraic Ricci Solitons of Three-dimensional Lorentzian Lie Groups

In this paper, the author computes canonical connections and KobayashiNomizu connections and their curvature on three-dimensional Lorentzian Lie groups with some product structure. He defines algebraic Ricci solitons associated to canonical connections and Kobayashi-Nomizu connections. He classifies algebraic Ricci solitons associated to canonical connections and Kobayashi-Nomizu connections on three-dimensional Lorentzian Lie groups with some product structure.     

Unification of electromagnetism and gravitation: The equations of electrodynamics derived from the Riemann tensor in general relativity

The equations of free-space electrodynamics are derived directly from the Riemann curvature tensor and the Bianchi identity of general relativity by contracting on two indices to give a novel antisymmetric Ricci tensor. Within a factore/h, this is the field-strength tensor G of free-space electrodynamics. The Bianchi identity for G describes free-space electrodynamics in a manner analogous to, but more general than, Maxwell's equations for electrodynamics, the critical difference being the existence in general and special relativity of the Evans-Vigier fieldB ⁽³⁾.     

球面Sn+p中奇数维极小子流形的Ricci曲率

设Mn 是单位球面Sn p的n维紧致极小子流形 ,给出了球面Sn p中奇数维紧致极小子流形的Ricci曲率的一个Pinching定理 .证明了如果Ric(Mn) >n - 2 - 1n - 1,n 5 ,则Mn 是全测地的 .改进了N .Ejiri (MathSocJapan ,1979,31:2 5 1～ 2 5 6 .)的Pinching常数     

广义伪Ricci对称Sasakian流形

Chaki引入了非平坦黎曼流形(M^n,g)(n≥2)，并称之为伪Ricci对称流形，记为(PRS)n，在此基础上Chaki和Koley定义了一类非平坦黎曼流形，并称为广义伪Ricci对称流形，记为G(PRS)n。讨论了广义Ricci对称Sasakian流形，证明了如果向量场ρ,λ和μ中任意2个正交于ξ，则第3个也正交于ξ。另外计算了广义伪Ricci对称Sasakian流形的数量曲率的值。     

旋量与张量、旋标架与零标架的对比研究

严格证明了关于零矢量、零标架、旋量及旋标架的11个性质，对旋量与张量、旋标架与零标架进行了比较研究，表明旋量对于研究黑洞的零曲面性质是比张量更为优越的工具．     

具有积分Ricci曲率界的流形上的Sobolev不等式

讨论了在具有积分Ricci曲率界的完备流形上的Sobolev嵌入定理,并最终得到了一个Sobolev嵌入不等式,这是对在Ricci曲率有下界情形之下的Sobolev嵌入定理的一个推广.