We describe all almost contact metric, almost hermitian and G 2-structures admitting a connection with totally skew-symmetric torsion tensor, and prove that there exists at most one such connection. We investigate its torsion form, its Ricci tensor, the Dirac operator and the ∇-parallel spinors. In particular, we obtain solutions of the type II string equations in dimension n = 5, 6 and 7.

We describe all almost contact metric, almost hermitian and G 2-structures admitting a connection with totally skew-symmetric torsion tensor, and prove that there exists at most one such connection. We investigate its torsion form, its Ricci tensor, the Dirac operator and the ∇-parallel spinors. In particular, we obtain solutions of the type II string equations in dimension n = 5, 6 and 7.

Using Ernst's theory of complex potentials, a solution of the coupled Einstein-Maxwell equations in oblate spheroidal coordinates is obtained for a source possessing mass, electric charge, and angular momentum. The density of the electromagnetic energy is evaluated. Explicit expressions are derived for the components of the Ricci tensor Rmunu, and of the electromagnetic energy momentum tensor E...

We study canonical paracontact connection on a para-Sasakian manifold. We prove that a Ricci-flat para-Sasakian manifold with respect to canonical paracontact connection is an η-Einstein manifold.We also investigate some properties of curvature tensor, conformal curvature tensor,W2curvature tensor, concircular curvature tensor, projective curvature tensor, and pseudo-projective curvature tensor...

The Schwarzschild metric, its Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter generalizations to higher dimensions, and some further generalizations all share the feature that gtt grr = −1 in Schwarzschild-like coordinates. In this pedagogical note we trace this feature to the condition that the Ricci tensor (and stress-energy tensor in a solution to Einstein’s equation) has vanishing radial null-null component, ...

The object of the present paper is to study Z-symmetric manifold with projective curvature tensor. At first, we case Z-tensor and Ricci tensor being Codazzi type. Next, consider recurrent We also divergence-free Z-tensor. Finally, construct an example

We show that the recently found anti-de Sitter (AdS)-plane and AdS-spherical wave solutions of quadratic curvature gravity also solve the most general higher derivative theory in D dimensions. More generally, we show that the field equations of such theories reduce to an equation linear in the Ricci tensor for Kerr-Schild spacetimes having type-N Weyl and type-N traceless Ricci tensors.

We use the framework used by Bakry and Emery in their work on logarithmic Sobolev inequalities to define a notion of coarse Ricci curvature on smooth metric measure spaces alternative to the notion proposed by Y. Ollivier. This function can be used to recover the Ricci tensor on smooth Riemannian manifolds by the formula Ric(γ′ (0) , γ′ (0)) = 1 2 d ds2 Ric4g (x, γ (s)) for any curve γ(s).

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We show that the splitting feature of the Einstein tensor, as the first term of the Lovelock tensor, into two parts (the Ricci tensor and the term proportional to the curvature scalar) with the trace relation between them is a common feature of any other homogeneous terms in the Lovelock tensor. Motivated by the principle of general invariance, we find that this property can be generalized, wit...