Conditions for the local existence of metric in a generic affine manifold

DOI10.1017/S0305004100056966zbMath0442.53020OpenAlexW1980035294MaRDI QIDQ3884769

Kuo-Shung Cheng, Wei-Tou Ni

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305004100056966

zbMATH Keywords

Levi-Civita connectionsgeneric affine manifoldlocal existence of metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear and affine connections (53B05)

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