arXiv research

New solutions to Chazy equations lead to Ricci-flat metrics.

Study maximally symmetric distribution of An-Nurowski surface rolling on a plane.

For a generic distribution of rank two on a manifold $M$ of dimension five, we introduce the notion of a generalized contact form. To such a form we associate a generalized Reeb field and a partial connection. From these data, we explicitly constructed a pseudo--Riemannian metric on $M$ of split signature. We prove tha…

Distributions of Monge type are a class of strongly regular bracket-generating distributions introduced by I. Anderson, Zh. Nie and P. Nurowski. Their symbol algebras prolong to simple graded Lie algebras, thus allowing one to associate a parabolic geometry to any given Monge distribution. This article is devoted to th…

As was shown recently by P. Nurowski, to any rank 2 maximally nonholonomic vector distribution on a 5-dimensional manifold M one can assign the canonical conformal structure of signature (3,2). His construction is based on the properties of the special 12-dimensional coframe bundle over M, which was distinguished by E.…

New methods for constructing null fluid metrics and solving optical lift conjectures.

The problem of characterizing conformally Einstein manifolds by tensorial conditions has been tackled recently in papers by M. Listing, and in work by A. R. Gover and P. Nurowski. Their results apply to metrics satisfying a "non-degeneracy" condition on the Weyl tensor \W. We investigate the geometry of the foliations …

The holonomy of the ambient metrics of Nurowski's conformal structures associated to generic real-analytic 2-plane fields on 5-manifolds is investigated. It is shown that the holonomy is always contained in the split real form G_2 of the exceptional Lie group, and is equal to G_2 for an open dense set of 2-plane fields…

The paper describes conformal structures and Pfaffian systems for rolling surfaces.

We investigate nonintegrable Riemannian geometries modelled after certain symmetric spaces related to the Freudenthal-Tits Magic Square. The collection of four such structures found by Nurowski is extended by further eight. A focus is given to those admitting a compatible connection with completely skew torsion.

The study lifts certain Sasakian manifolds to quasi-Einstein spacetimes.

In the geometry of generic 2-plane fields on 5-manifolds, the local equivalence problem was solved by Cartan who also constructed the fundamental curvature invariant. For generic 2-plane fields or $(2,3,5)$-distributions determined by a single function of the form $F(q)$, the vanishing condition for the curvature invar…

Developed calculus for $(2, 3, 5)$ distributions, finding geometric interpretations.

Nurowski showed that any generic 2-plane field $D$ on a 5-manifold $M$ determines a natural conformal structure $c_D$ on $M$; these conformal structures are exactly those (on oriented $M$) whose normal conformal holonomy is contained in the (split, real) simple Lie group $G_2$. Graham and Willse showed that for real-an…

The purpose of this note is to provide yet another example of the link between certain conformal geometries and ordinary differential equations, along the lines of the examples discussed by Nurowski in math.DG/0406400. In this particular case, I consider the equivalence problem for 3-plane fields D on 6-manifolds M tha…

Recent work Bobienski-Nurowski on 5-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with an SO(3) structure prompts us to investigate which Lie groups admit such a geometry. The case in which the SO(3) structure admits a compatible connection with torsion is considered. This leads to a classification under special behaviour of the on…

For a conformal manifold, we describe a new relation between the ambient obstruction tensor of Fefferman and Graham and the holonomy of the normal conformal Cartan connection. This relation allows us to prove several results on the vanishing and the rank of the obstruction tensor, for example for conformal structures a…

A PhD thesis written under supervision of Pawel Nurowski and defended at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw. We adress the problems of local equivalence and geometry of third order ODEs modulo contact, point and fibre-preserving transformations of variables. Several new and already known geometries are …

Generic distributions on 5- and 6-manifolds give rise to conformal structures that were discovered by P. Nurowski resp. R. Bryant. We describe both as Fefferman-type constructions and show that for orientable distributions one obtains conformal spin structures. The resulting conformal spin geometries are then character…

Using the tractor calculus to study smooth metric measure spaces, we adapt results of Gover and Nurowski to give sharp metric obstructions to the existence of quasi-Einstein metrics on suitably generic manifolds. We do this by introducing an analogue of the Weyl tractor $W$ to the setting of smooth metric measure space…

Given a maximally non-integrable 2-distribution ${\mathcal D}$ on a 5-manifold $M$, it was discovered by P. Nurowski that one can naturally associate a conformal structure $[g]_{\mathcal D}$ of signature (2,3) on $M$. We show that those conformal structures $[g]_{\mathcal D}$ which come about by this construction are c…

A manifold with an irreducible $SO(3)$-structure is a $5$-manifold $M$ whose structure group can be reduced to the group $SO(3)$, non-standardly imbedded in $SO(5)$. The study of such manifolds has been initiated by M. Bobieński and P. Nurowski who, in particular, have shown that one can define four $CR$-structures on …

Study on almost Robinson geometries, focusing on their intrinsic torsion and leaf space properties.

Constructs perturbed Fefferman spaces on almost CR manifolds.

We analyze the classic problem of existence of Einstein metrics in a given conformal structure for the class of conformal structures inducedf Nurowski's construction by (oriented) (2,3,5) distributions. We characterize in two ways such conformal structures that admit an almost Einstein scale: First, they are precisely …

Generalizes Fefferman's structure to CR three-manifolds with additional data.

Classifies manifolds with dense conjugacy classes in their mapping class groups.

Generic pseudo-Anosov mapping classes in mapping class groups.

This paper tackles worst-class error rate in classification tasks.

New method learns multi-class from single-class data with confidences.

One of the earliest conjectures in computational learning theory-the Sample Compression conjecture-asserts that concept classes (equivalently set systems) admit compression schemes of size linear in their VC dimension. To-date this statement is known to be true for maximum classes---those that possess maximum cardinali…

Paper constructs a cohomology class related to McDuff's secondary class, proving it transgresses to the Euler class of foliated sphere bundles.

A new method learns features for one-class classification using intra-class splitting.

The paper proves inequalities for orbifold second Chern classes in Fujiki's class.

Study on characteristic classes for foliation deformations.

New classes generalize Chern classes in supergeometry.

The hyperelliptic mapping class group has been studied in various contexts within topology and algebraic geometry. What makes this study tractable is that there is a surjective map from the hyperelliptic mapping class group to a mapping class group of a punctured sphere. The more general family of superelliptic mapping…

CILF learns adaptive embeddings for class-incremental learning with novel class detection and model update.

A new method identifies class-specific covariates in multi-class prediction tasks.

In this paper we give explicit formulas of differential characteristic classes of principal $G$-bundles with connections and prove their expected properties. In particular, we obtain explicit formulas for differential Chern classes, differential Pontryagin classes and differential Euler class. Furthermore, we show that…

Paper shows Euler class vanishes in certain subgroup of mapping class group.

Paper shows mapping classes are largely determined by their finite quotient actions.

Study of conjugacy classes in infinite-type surfaces' mapping class groups.

The paper classifies dense conjugacy classes in mapping class groups of locally finite graphs.

We give a complete description of conjugacy classes of finite subgroups of the mapping class group of the sphere with r marked points. As a corollary we obtain a description of conjugacy classes of maximal finite subgroups of the hyperelliptic mapping class group. In particular, we prove that for a fixed genus g there …

SWRLDA improves LDA for multi-class classification with edge classes.

A simple framework predicts unseen classes using exponential family distributions.

CP-GAN generates images selectively conditioned on class specificity, capturing between-class relationships.