Let K denote a closed odd-dimensional smooth manifold and let E be a flat vector bundle over K. In this situation the construction of Ray and Singer [RS] gives a metric on the determinant line of the cohomology detH(M ;E) which is a smooth invariant of the manifold M and the flat bundle E. (Note that if the dimension of K is even then the Ray-Singer metric depends on the choice of a Riemannian ...

This paper is connected with the problem of describing path metric spaces which are homeomorphic to manifolds and biLipschitz homogeneous, i.e., whose biLipschitz homeomorphism group acts transitively. Our main result is the following. LetX = G/H be a homogeneous space of a Lie group G, and let d be a geodesic distance on X inducing the same topology. Suppose there exists a subgroup GS of G whi...

In this paper, we prove that the orthogonal complement $\mathcal{F}^{\perp}$ of a totally geodesic foliation $\mathcal{F}$ on complete semi-Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ satisfying certain inequality between mixed sectional curvatures and integrability tensor is geodesic. We also obtain conditions for existence foliations with bundle-like metric $g$.

Let M be an n-dimensional projective algebraic manifold in certain projective space CP . The hyperplane line bundle of CP restricts to an ample line bundle L on M , which is called a polarization of M . A Kähler metric g is called a polarized metric, if the corresponding Kähler form represents the first Chern class c1(L) of L in H (M,Z). Given any polarized Kähler metric g, there is a Hermitian...

We derive and study necessary and sufficient conditions for an S-bundle to admit an invariant metric of positive or nonnegative sectional curvature. In case the total space has an invariant metric of nonnegative curvature and the base space is odd dimensional, we prove that the total space contains a flat totally geodesic immersed cylinder. We provide several examples, including a connection me...

Let  be an n-dimensional Riemannian manifold, and  be its tangent bundle with the lift metric. Then every infinitesimal fiber-preserving conformal transformation  induces an infinitesimal homothetic transformation on .  Furthermore,  the correspondence   gives a homomorphism of the Lie algebra of infinitesimal fiber-preserving conformal transformations on  onto the Lie algebra of infinitesimal ...

In this paper we study a Riemanian metric on the tangent bundle T (M) of a Riemannian manifold M which generalizes Sasaki metric and Cheeger Gromoll metric and a compatible almost complex structure which together with the metric confers to T (M) a structure of locally conformal almost Kählerian manifold. This is the natural generalization of the well known almost Kählerian structure on T (M). W...

Building on Fujita-Griffiths method of computing metrics on Hodge bundles, we show that the direct image of an adjoint semi-ample line bundle by a projective submersion has a continuous metric with Griffiths semi-positive curvature. This shows that for every holomorphic semi-ample vector bundle E on a complex manifold, and every positive integer k, the vector bundle SE ⊗ detE has a continuous m...

In this paper it is proved that the volumes of the moduli spaces of polarized Calabi-Yau manifolds with respect to Weil-Petersson metrics are rational numbers. Mumford introduce the notion of a good metric on vector bundle over a quasi-projective variety in [10]. He proved that the Chern forms of good metrics define classes of cohomology with integer coefficients on the compactified quasi-proje...