‎the notion of quasi-einstein metric in physics is equivalent to the notion of ricci soliton in riemannian spaces‎. ‎quasi-einstein metrics serve also as solution to the ricci flow equation‎. ‎here‎, ‎the riemannian metric is replaced by a hessian matrix derived from a finsler structure and a quasi-einstein finsler metric is defined‎. ‎in compact case‎, ‎it is proved that the quasi-einstein met...

a projective parameter of a geodesic as solution of certain ode is defined to be a parameter which is invariant under projective change of metric. using projective parameter and poincaré metric, an intrinsic projectively invariant pseudo-distance can be constructed. in the present work, solutions of the above ode are characterized with respect to the sign of parallel ricci tensor on a finsler s...

§0 Introduction. In this paper, we shall give a geometric account of the linear trace Li-Yau-Hamilton (which will be abbreviated as LYH) inequality for the Kähler-Ricci flow proved by LuenFai Tam and the author in [NT1]. To put the result, especially the Liouville theorem for the plurisubharmonic functions, into the right perspective we would also describe some dualities existed in both linear ...

Let (M, g) be a Riemannian manifold. The Riesz transform problem, namely giving conditions on p and on the manifold such that the operator d∆−1/2 – the so-called Riesz transform – is bounded on L, has recently undergone certain progresses. A pioneering result which goes back to 1985 is a theorem of D. Bakry [2] which asserts that if the Ricci curvature of M is non-negative, then the Riesz trans...

Positiveness of scalar curvature and Ricci curvature requires vanishing the obstruction θ(M) which is computed in some KK-theory of C*-algebras index as a pairing of spin Dirac operator and Mishchenko bundle associated to the manifold. U. Pennig had proved that the obstruction θ(M) does not vanish if M is an enlargeable closed oriented smooth manifold of even dimension larger than or equals to ...

We study the asymptotic behavior of the Kähler-Ricci flow on Kähler manifolds of nonnegative holomorphic bisectional curvature. Using these results we prove that a complete noncompact Kähler manifold with nonnegative bounded holomorphic bisectional curvature and maximal volume growth is biholomorphic to complex Euclidean space C . We also show that the volume growth condition can be removed if ...

The object of this paper is to study $(epsilon)$-Lorentzian para-Sasakian manifolds. Some typical identities for the curvature tensor and the Ricci tensor of $(epsilon)$-Lorentzian para-Sasakian manifold are investigated. Further, we study globally $phi$-Ricci symmetric and weakly $phi$-Ricci symmetric $(epsilon)$-Lorentzian para-Sasakian manifolds and obtain interesting results.

We develop the theory of left-invariant generalized pseudo-Riemannian metrics on Lie groups. Such a metric accompanied by choice divergence operator gives rise to Ricci curvature tensor and we study corresponding Einstein equation. compute in terms tensors (on sum algebra its dual) encoding Courant algebroid structure, operator. The resulting expression is polynomial homogeneous degree two coef...