We show that the minimal hypersurface method of Schoen and Yau can be used for the “quantitative” study of positive scalar curvature. More precisely, we show that if a manifold admits a metric g with sg ≥ |T | or sg ≥ |W |, where sg is the scalar curvature of of g, T any 2-tensor on M and W the Weyl tensor of g, then any closed orientable stable minimal (totally geodesic in the second case) hyp...

The aim of the present paper is to study properties of Quasi conformally flat LP-Sasakian manifolds with a coefficient α. In this paper, we prove that a Quasi conformally flat LP-Sasakian manifold M (n > 3) with a constant coefficient α is an η−Einstein and in a quasi conformally flat LP-Sasakian manifold M (n > 3) with a constant coefficient α if the scalar curvature tensor is constant then M ...

We study basic properties of supermanifolds endowed with an even (odd) symplectic structure and a connection respecting this symplectic structure. Such supermanifolds can be considered as generalization of Fedosov manifolds to the supersymmetric case. Choosing an appropriate definition of inverse (second-rank) tensor fields on supermanifolds we consider the symmetry behavior of tensor fields as...

We show how to reconstruct a two-dimensional surface, the drift field, and the diffusion tensor from a planar projection of trajectories of a diffusion process on the surface. The reconstruction is based on the stochastic differential equations of the projected motion, whose drift and diffusion tensor depend on the local curvature of the surface. The reconstruction process requires the solution...

An algebraic curvature tensor is called Osserman if the eigenvalues of the associated Jacobi operator are constant on the unit sphere. A Riemannian manifold is called conformally Osserman if its Weyl conformal curvature tensor at every point is Osserman. We prove that a conformally Osserman manifold of dimension n 6= 3, 4, 16 is locally conformally equivalent either to a Euclidean space or to a...

We study the elements in the structure group of an algebraic curvature tensor R by analyzing Jordan normal forms. Because every matrix has a unique Jordan normal form representation, up to a permutation of the Jordan Blocks, we are able to determine which matrices taking on a specific form will be in the structure group of some algebraic curvature tensor. A method for analyzing these forms is d...

We discuss Einstein’s field equations in the presence of signature change using variational methods, obtaining a generalization of the Lanczos equation relating the distributional term in the stress tensor to the discontinuity of the extrinsic curvature. In particular, there is no distributional term in the stress tensor, and hence no surface layer, precisely when the extrinsic curvature is con...

We obtain curvature tensor R̃(X, Y )Z w.r.t quarter-symmetric metric connection in terms of curvature tensor R(X,Y )Z relative to the Levi-civita connection in a K-contact manifold. Further, locally φ-symmetric, φ-symmetric and locally projective φ-symmetric K-contact manifolds with respect to the quarter-symmetric metric connection are studied and some results are obtained. The results are assi...

A Bochner flat Kähler manifold is a Kähler manifold with vanishing Bochner curvature tensor. We shall give a uniformization of Bochner flat Kähler manifolds. One of the aims of this paper is to give a correction to the proof of our previous paper [9] concerning uniformization of Bochner flat Kähler manifolds. A Bochner flat locally conformal Kähler manifold is a locally conformal Kähler manifol...

Abstract A decomposition theorem is established for a class of closed Riemannian submanifolds immersed in space form the constant sectional curvature. In particular, it shown that if M has nonnegative curvature and admits Codazzi tensor with “parallel mean curvature”, then locally isometric to direct product irreducible factors determined by spectrum tensor. This global when simply connected, g...