Metric connections with parallel twistor-free torsion
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The torsion of every metric connection on a Riemannian manifold has three components: one totally skew-symmetric, vectorial type and twistorial type, which is also called the traceless cyclic component. In this paper we classify complete simply connected manifolds carrying whose parallel, nonzero component vanishing
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Mathematics
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1793-6519', '0129-167X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0129167x21400115