An integral formula for singular distributions

DOI10.1007/S00025-019-1145-1MaRDI QIDQ2301576zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul Popescu, Vladimir Yu. Rovenskij

Publication date 25 February 2020

Published in Results in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00025-019-1145-1

zbMATH Keywords

divergencemean curvaturemixed scalar curvatureRiemannian metricsecond fundamental formsingular distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local Riemannian geometry (53B20) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)

Review text

The paper provides interesting contributions to the differential geometry of singular distributions, which are described by the images of smooth endomorphisms of the tangent bundle. The first contribution is a generalised notion of divergence for \((1,k)\)-tensors over a Riemannian manifold, relatively to a smooth endomorphism of the tangent bundle. This notion leads to a generalised Stokes theorem, and a useful modified version of it which holds for complete open Riemannian manifolds. In particular, the classical case follows by choosing the identity endomorphism. Another important result is a generalised Codazzi equation, for any pair of smooth endomorphisms which describes singular transversal distributions and in addition is allowed by the Levi-Civita connection, which means that some compatibility conditions are satisfied. In the particular case of a pair of complementary orthogonal regular distributions, of course, this equation reduces to the usual Codazzi equation. Moreover, it is shown that for a self-adjoint pair of endomorphisms the generalised Codazzi equation provides an expression for the mixed scalar curvature in terms of invariants of the distributions, and also an integral formula that generalizes another one already found by Walczak for complementary orthogonal regular distributions. Finally, the modified Stokes theorem and the expression for the mixed scalar curvature are used to get some new results on the splitting of manifolds.

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