Mancho Manev

NATURAL CONNECTION WITH TOTALLY SKEW-SYMMETRIC TORSION ON ALMOST CONTACT MANIFOLDS WITH B-METRIC

A natural connection with totally skew-symmetric torsion on almost contact manifolds with B-metric is constructed. The class of these manifolds, where the considered connection exists, is determined. Some curvature properties for this connection, when the corresponding curvature tensor has the properties of the curvature tensor for the Levi-Civita connection and the torsion tensor is parallel, are obtained.

Canonical-type connection on almost contact manifolds with B-metric

The canonical-type connection on the almost contact manifolds with B-metric is constructed. It is proved that its torsion is invariant with respect to a subgroup of the general conformal transformations of the almost contact B-metric structure. The basic classes of the considered manifolds are characterized in terms of the torsion of the canonical-type connection.

A CLASSIFICATION OF THE TORSION TENSORS ON ALMOST CONTACT MANIFOLDS WITH B-METRIC

The space of the torsion (0,3)-tensors of the linear connections on almost contact manifolds with B-metric is decomposed in 15 orthogonal and invariant subspaces with respect to the action of the structure group. Three known connections, preserving the structure, are characterized regarding this classification.

Almost hypercomplex pseudo-Hermitian manifolds and a 4-dimensional Lie group with such structure

Abstract.Almost hypercomplex pseudo-Hermitian manifolds are considered. Isotropic hyper-Kähler manifolds are introduced. A 4-parametric family of 4-dimensional manifolds of this type is constructed on a Lie group. This family is characterized geometrically. The condition a 4-manifold to be isotropic hyper-Kähler is given.

A CONNECTION WITH PARALLEL TOTALLY SKEW-SYMMETRIC TORSION ON A CLASS OF ALMOST HYPERCOMPLEX MANIFOLDS WITH HERMITIAN AND ANTI-HERMITIAN METRICS

The subject of investigations are the almost hypercomplex manifolds with Hermitian and anti-Hermitian (Norden) metrics. A linear connection D is introduced such that the structure of these manifolds is parallel with respect to D and its torsion is totally skew-symmetric. The class of the nearly Kahler manifolds with respect to the first almost complex structure is of special interest. It is proved that D has a D-parallel torsion and is weak if it is not flat. Some curvature properties of these manifolds are studied.

NATURAL CONNECTION WITH TOTALLY SKEW-SYMMETRIC TORSION ON RIEMANNIAN ALMOST PRODUCT MANIFOLDS

On a Riemannian almost product manifold (M, P, g), we consider a linear connection preserving the almost product structure P and the Riemannian metric g and having a totally skew-symmetric torsion. We determine the class of the manifolds (M, P, g) admitting such a connection and prove that this connection is unique in terms of the covariant derivative of P with respect to the Levi-Civita connection. We find a necessary and sufficient condition the curvature tensor of the considered connection to have similar properties like the ones of the Kahler tensor in Hermitian geometry. We pay attention to the case when the torsion of the connection is parallel. We consider this connection on a Riemannian almost product manifold (G, P, g) constructed by a Lie group G.

Hypercomplex structures with Hermitian–Norden metrics on four-dimensional Lie algebras

Integrable hypercomplex structures with Hermitian and Norden metrics on Lie groups of dimension 4 are considered. The corresponding five types of invariant hypercomplex structures with hyper-Hermitian metric, studied by Barberis, are constructed here. The different cases regarding the signature of the basic pseudo-Riemannian metric are considered.

Quaternionic Kähler manifolds with Hermitian and Norden metrics

Almost hypercomplex manifolds with Hermitian and Norden metrics and more specially the corresponding quaternionic Kähler manifolds are considered. Some necessary and sufficient conditions for the investigated manifolds to be isotropic hyper-Kählerian and flat are found. It is proved that the quaternionic Kähler manifolds with the considered metric structure are Einstein for dimension at least 8. The class of the non-hyper-Kähler quaternionic Kähler manifolds of the considered type is determined.

On the geometry of connections with totally skew-symmetric torsion on manifolds with additional tensor structures and indefinite metrics

Abstract This paper is a survey of results obtained by the authors on the geometry of connections with totally skew-symmetric torsion on the following manifolds: almost complex manifolds with Norden metric, almost contact manifolds with B-metric and almost hypercomplex manifolds with Hermitian and anti-Hermitian metric.