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A question in spin geometry in dimension 8
$\DeclareMathOperator\trace{trace}\DeclareMathOperator\End{End}\DeclareMathOperator\Trace{Trace}$This is to understand a very specific isomorphism in dimension $8$. In dimension $4$ for a spin$^c$ ...
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Geodesics on orthogonal matrix
Let $ O(n) $ be the manifold of orthornormal matrix, i.e.
$$
O(n)=\{A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}:A^TA=I\}.
$$
Then $ O(n) $ is a submanifold of $ \mathbb{R}^{n\times n} $. On $ O(n) $, there is a ...
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Global choice of eigenvectors on an open surface
Let $(M^2,g)$ be a noncompact orientable Riemannian surface without boundary. Let $A \in \Gamma(\operatorname{Sym}(TM))$ be a section of the bundle of symmetric endomorphisms of $TM$, that is, for ...
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A Riemannian manifold with a non-degenerate metric and an inner product $u_{\beta} u^{\beta}=1$
The question is: given a Riemannian manifold with a non-degenerate metric g and an inner product $u_{\beta}u^{\beta}=1$, is $\nabla_{\mu} (u_{\alpha}u_{\beta})=0$ without demanding the trivial ...
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Problem arising in metrizability of connections: Simultaneously skewsymmetrizing matrices
Fact: Let $U$ and $V$ be two $ n \times n$ matrices with determinant $ 1.$ Assume that $S_1,S_2,....S_m$ are linearly independent $n \times n$ matrices such that $U^{-1}S_iU$ and $V^{-1}S_iV$ are ...
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Representation theoretic characterisation of symmetric spaces
Let $G$ be a simple compact Lie group and $H$ a closed subgroup.
Let $\mathfrak{h}\subset \mathfrak{g}$ denote the corresponding Lie algebras. Let $\mathfrak{m}$ be an orthogonal complement to $\...
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Connection of the existence of Killing-Yano tensor and Killing tensor
Stephani states that in 4 dimensions a spacetime admits a non-reducible Killing-Yano tensor only if the Weyl tensor either is
of Petrov type D or vanishes. Does this imply that the spacetime also ...
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volume of parallelotope in $L^2(\mathbb R).$ [closed]
Let $L^2(\mathbb R)$ is complex Hilbert space with standard inner product.
Does it make sense to talk of volume of parallelotope formed by following vectors in $L^2(\mathbb R):$ say, e.g.,
$$\{ f(...
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Connection between Gram matrix and Riemannian invariants?
Recall that the Gram matrix of vectors $v_1, \dots, v_k\in\mathbb{R}^n$ is the $k\times k$ matrix $G_{ij}=(v_i,v_j)$. Now suppose that the vectors $v_i$ have been sampled uniformly from some ...
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Why are they called "screen" distributions?
If $V$ is a vector space and $g$ is a symmetric degenerate bilinear form on $V$, every complementary subspace to the radical ${\rm rad}(V)$ is called a "screen subspace" of $V$: we have an orthogonal ...
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A problem of defining addition in a Quotient space
Let $\mathcal{C}$ be the space of all parametric curves $x:[0,1]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^2$. Let the set of all re-parameterizations of curves is $\Gamma = \{\gamma : [0, 1] \rightarrow [0, 1]| \gamma (...
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A geometric property of singular matrices
Let $S\subset M_{n}(\mathbb{R})$ be the singular points of the equation $Det=0$. That is $S$ is the critical points of the determinant function.
What matrices belongs to $S$, precisely?
Let $M=...
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Geometric means of matrices beyond the positive definite cone
Recently a lot of work has been done on geometric means of positive definite matrices (see here and here for example). Has anyone extended this concept to larger sets of matrices (copositive, for ...
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Canonic identification of the tangent space of the Grassmannian
let $Gr(k,V)$ be the grassmannian of k-dimensional subspaces of the complex vector space $V$ of dimension $n>k$.
I know that, given $K\in Gr(k,V)$, $T_{Gr(k,V),K}\simeq Hom(K,V/K)$, but i want to ...
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Can one (block) diagonalize the curvature matrix of 2 forms on a Riemannian manifold?
Let $M$ be a smooth Riemannian manifold, let $R$ be the Riemannian curvature operator, and let $p$ be a point in the manifold. With respect to any orthonormal basis of the tangent bundle at the point $...
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Invariants of a $GL(3,\mathbb{R})$ action
I'm trying to understand the standard $GL(3,\mathbb{R})$ action on the 15-dimensional space of possible values for the derivative of the Riemann curvature tensor of a 3-dimensional manifold $M$ at a ...
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stochastic control / geometric mean
Consider the following problem:
Given $\Omega$ and $U$ two symmetric definite positive matrices, choose a matrix $K$ to minimize the expectation $x' \Omega x + x'K'UKx$ when $x$ follows the invariant ...
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Is there an elementary way to show the triangular inequality for this expression ?
Consider the space $X$ of all scalar products on $\mathbb{R}^n$. For a scalar product $s$ and a base $B:=b_1\ldots,b_n$ let $M_{s,B}$ denote the matrix, whose $(i,j)$-th entry is $(s(b_i,b_j))$ . ...
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