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Finsler metrics of constant curvature characterized, with a Finslerian Beltrami Theorem.

New Finsler metrics with constant flag curvature defined using Weyl-type curvature tensor.

This article examines the coincidence of the projective and conformal Weyl tensors associated to a given connection D. The connection may be a general Weyl connection associated to a conformal class of metrics [g]. The main result for n>3 is that the Weyl tensors coincide iff D is the Levi-Civita connection of an Einst…

The aim of the present paper is to provide an intrinsic investigation of projective changes in Finlser geometry, following the pullback formalism. Various known local results are generalized and other new intrinsic results are obtained. Nontrivial characterizations of projective changes are given. The fundamental proje…

Generators for invariants of geometric mappings are derived.

The paper studies quarter-symmetric connections on Hermitian and Kähler manifolds.

New invariants found for a specific type of mapping in generalized Riemannian space.

We study complex 4-manifolds with holomorphic self-dual conformal structures, and we obtain an interpretation of the Weyl tensor of such a manifold as the projective curvature of a field of cones on the ambitwistor space. In particular, its vanishing is implied by the existence of some compact, simply-connected, null-g…

The paper examines geometric properties of a unique spacetime model.

Researchers study invariants of specific mappings in affine spaces.

The equation determining whether a projective structure admits a connection in its given projective class that has skew-symmetric Ricci tensor is an overdetermined system of semi-linear partial differential equations which we call the projective Einstein-Weyl (pEW) equation. In 2-dimensions, we give local obstructions …

The paper investigates various generalizations of semisymmetric and pseudosymmetric manifolds.

Given a projective structure on a three-dimensional manifold, we find explicit obstructions to the local existence of a Levi-Civita connection in the projective class. These obstructions are given by projectively invariant tensors algebraically constructed from the projective Weyl curvature. We show, by examples, that …

We characterize manifolds which are locally conformally equivalent to either complex projective space or to its negative curvature dual in terms of their Weyl curvature tensor. As a byproduct of this investigation, we classify the conformally complex space forms if the dimension is at least 8. We also study when the Ja…

Paper derives new geometric invariants from affine connections.

Investigates Schouten-Weyl tensor on 3D Lie groups with specific metrics.

Characterizes projective special complex manifolds using c-projective structures.

Derives local forms for Bochner-flat (pseudo-)Kähler metrics.

Derives Bochner formulas for the Weyl tensor on 4D Einstein manifolds.

The paper defines minimal norm tensors for curvature and divergence tensors, explaining Weyl and Cotten tensors.

An almost Robinson structure on an $n$-dimensional Lorentzian manifold $(\mcM,g)$, where $n=2m+ε$, $ε\in \{ 0 ,1 \}$, is a complex $m$-plane distribution $\mcN$ that is totally null with respect to the complexified metric, and intersects its complex conjugate in a real null line distribution $\mcK$, say. When $\mcN$ an…

A simple property of Weyl tensor in shear-free, vorticity-free, acceleration-free velocity fields.

Conformally recurrent pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of dimension n>4 are investigated. The Weyl tensor is represented as a Kulkarni-Nomizu product. If the square of the Weyl tensor is nonzero, a covariantly constant symmetric tensor is constructed, that is quadratic in the Weyl tensor. Then, by Grycak's theorem, the expl…

An affine hypersurface (AH) structure is a pair comprising a conformal structure and a projective structure such that for any torsion-free connection representing the projective structure the completely trace-free part of the covariant derivative of any metric representing the conformal structure is completely symmetri…

In all dimensions and arbitrary signature, we demonstrate the existence of a new local potential -- a double (2,3)-form -- for the Weyl curvature tensor, and more generally for all tensors with the symmetry properties of the Weyl curvature tensor. The classical four-dimensional Lanczos potential for a Weyl tensor -- a …

This paper classifies compact Ricci solitons using Weyl tensor conditions.

Extends Weyl geometry from conformal to Weyl manifolds using ambient metrics.

We prove new lower bounds for the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on compact manifolds whose Weyl tensor or curvature tensor, respectively, is divergence free. In the special case of Einstein manifolds, we obtain estimates depending on the Weyl tensor.

The paper analyzes tensors in generalized Robertson-Walker space-times.

In this paper, we will give a local version of the Hamilton-Ivey type pinching estimate of the gradient shrinking soliton with vanishing Weyl tensor, and then give a complete classification on gradient shrinking solitons with vanishing Weyl tensor.

Compatible tensors form a special Jordan algebra.

Study classifies gradient almost Ricci solitons with harmonic Weyl tensor.

Study vacuum static spaces with vanishing Bach and Weyl tensors, proving harmonicity and rigidity results.

Study shows Sasaki solitons with harmonic Weyl tensor are spheres.

A Riemannian manifold is called Weyl homogeneous, if its Weyl tensors at any two points are "the same", up to a positive multiple. A Weyl homogeneous manifold is modeled on a homogeneous space $M_0$, if its Weyl tensor at every point is "the same" as the Weyl tensor of $M_0$, up to a positive multiple. We prove that a …

The paper extends Weyl's theorem to equiaffine hypersurfaces.

We determine the space of algebraic pseudo-Hermitian Kähler-Weyl curvature tensors and the space of para-Hermitian Kähler-Weyl curvature tensors in dimension 4 and show that every algebraic possibility is geometrically realizable. We establish the Gray identity for pseudo-Hermitian Weyl manifolds and for para-Hermitian…

Simply connected 4-manifolds with specific Weyl tensor are geodesic balls in space forms.

This paper derives new identities for the Weyl tensor on a gradient Ricci soliton, particularly in dimension four. First, we prove a Bochner-Weitzenböck type formula for the norm of the self-dual Weyl tensor and discuss its applications, including connections between geometry and topology. In the second part, we are co…

Study proves conditions for Einstein-type manifolds with specific Weyl tensor properties.

New proof shows gradient Ricci solitons with harmonic Weyl tensor have at most three eigenvalues.

In this paper, we show that the projection of a dualistic structure defined on a twisted product manifold induces dualistic structures on the base and the fiber manifolds, and conversely. Then under some conditions on the Ricci curvature and the Weyl conformal tensor we characterize dually flat structures on twisted pr…

Weak harmonic Weyl metrics found on all 4D closed manifolds.

Study on noncompact steady quasi-Einstein manifolds with specific tensor conditions.

A metric projective structure is a manifold equipped with the unparametrised geodesics of some pseudo-Riemannian metric. We make acomprehensive treatment of such structures in the case that there is a projective Weyl curvature nullity condition. The analysis is simplified by a fundamental and canonical 2-tensor invaria…

We prove the vanishing of the first Betti number on compact manifolds admitting a Weyl structure whose Ricci tensor satisfies certain positivity conditions, thus obtaining a Bochner-type vanishing theorem in Weyl geometry. We also study compact Hermitian-Weyl manifolds with non-negative symmetric part of the Ricci tens…

The paper examines four-dimensional manifolds with specific curvature constraints.

We study symplectic manifolds $(M^{2l},ω)$ equipped with a symplectic torsion-free affine (also called Fedosov) connection $\nabla$ and admitting a metaplectic structure. Let $\mathcal{S}$ be the so called symplectic spinor bundle and let $R^S$ be the curvature tensor field of the symplectic spinor covariant derivative…