Riemannian Submersions, Four-Manifolds and Einstein-Weyl Geometry

1993 ◽  
Vol s3-66 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Pedersen ◽  
Andrew Swann
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Submersions ◽  
Weyl Geometry ◽  
Four Manifolds

Constructing symplectic manifolds

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dusa McDuff ◽  
Dietmar Salamon
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Symplectic Manifolds ◽  
Homotopy Equivalence ◽  
Codimension Two ◽  
Open Manifolds ◽  
Connected Sums ◽  
Symplectic Forms ◽  
Ambient Manifold ◽  
Blowing Up ◽  
Four Manifolds

This chapter examines various ways to construct symplectic manifolds and submanifolds. It begins by studying blowing up and down in both the complex and the symplectic contexts. The next section is devoted to a discussion of fibre connected sums and describes Gompf’s construction of symplectic four-manifolds with arbitrary fundamental group. The chapter also contains an exposition of Gromov’s telescope construction, which shows that for open manifolds the h-principle rules and the inclusion of the space of symplectic forms into the space of nondegenerate 2-forms is a homotopy equivalence. The final section outlines Donaldson’s construction of codimension two symplectic submanifolds and explains the associated decompositions of the ambient manifold.

Triharmonic Riemannian submersions from 3-dimensional space forms

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomoya Miura ◽  
Shun Maeta
Keyword(s):  
Existence Theorem ◽  
Space Form ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Riemannian Submersion ◽  
Partial Answer ◽  
Riemannian Submersions ◽  
Space Forms ◽  
3 Dimensional

Abstract We show that any triharmonic Riemannian submersion from a 3-dimensional space form into a surface is harmonic. This is an affirmative partial answer to the submersion version of the generalized Chen conjecture. Moreover, a non-existence theorem for f -biharmonic Riemannian submersions is also presented.

scholarly journals Semi-invariant Riemannian submersions from nearly Kaehler manifolds

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (07) ◽  
pp. 2050100
Author(s):  
Rupali Kaushal ◽  
Rashmi Sachdeva ◽  
Rakesh Kumar ◽  
Rakesh Kumar Nagaich
Keyword(s):  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Riemannian Submersion ◽  
Horizontal Distribution ◽  
Product Manifold ◽  
Riemannian Submersions ◽  
Kaehler Manifolds ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
Nearly Kaehler Manifold ◽  
The Vertical Distribution ◽  
Usual Product

We study semi-invariant Riemannian submersions from a nearly Kaehler manifold to a Riemannian manifold. It is well known that the vertical distribution of a Riemannian submersion is always integrable therefore, we derive condition for the integrability of horizontal distribution of a semi-invariant Riemannian submersion and also investigate the geometry of the foliations. We discuss the existence and nonexistence of semi-invariant submersions such that the total manifold is a usual product manifold or a twisted product manifold. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for a semi-invariant submersion to be a totally geodesic map. Finally, we study semi-invariant submersions with totally umbilical fibers.

scholarly journals WEYL GEOMETRY AS CHARACTERIZATION OF SPACE-TIME

2011 ◽  
Vol 03 ◽  
pp. 87-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. P. POULIS ◽  
J. M. SALIM
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Scalar Field ◽  
Riemannian Geometry ◽  
Axiomatic Approach ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Weyl Geometry ◽  
Test Particles ◽  
Variational Formalism ◽  
Physical Fields

Motivated by an axiomatic approach to characterize space-time it is investigated a reformulation of Einstein's gravity where the pseudo-riemannian geometry is substituted by a Weyl one. It is presented the main properties of the Weyl geometry and it is shown that it gives extra contributions to the trajectories of test particles, serving as one more motivation to study general relativity in Weyl geometry. It is introduced its variational formalism and it is established the coupling with other physical fields in such a way that the theory acquires a gauge symmetry for the geometrical fields. It is shown that this symmetry is still present for the red-shift and it is concluded that for cosmological models it opens the possibility that observations can be fully described by the new geometrical scalar field. It is concluded then that this reformulation, although representing a theoretical advance, still needs a complete description of their objects.

Quantum fluctuations of the metric, three-geometries and conformal embeddings in four-manifolds

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Davis
Keyword(s):  
Path Integrals ◽  
Invariance Group ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Exponential Expansion ◽  
Cotangent Bundles ◽  
Four Manifolds ◽  
Conformal Embeddings ◽  
Natural Relation

In this paper, connections between the path integrals for four-dimensional quantum gravity and string theory are emphasized. It is shown that there is a natural relation between these two path integrals based on the theorems on embeddings of two-dimensional surfaces in four dimensions and four-dimensional manifolds in ten dimensions. The isometry groups of the three-geometries that are spatial hypersurfaces confomally embedded in the four-manifolds are required to be subgroups of [Formula: see text], which is the invariance group of the Pfaffian differential system satisfied by one form in the cotangent bundles on the four-manifolds. Based on this and other physical conditions, the three-geometries are restricted to be [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] with a boundary, which may be included in the quantum gravitational path integral over four-manifolds which are closed at initial times followed by an exponential expansion compatible with supersymmetry.

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