Abstract
AbstractAnalogues of the classical affine-projective correspondence are developed in the context of statistical manifolds compatible with a radiant vector field. These utilize a formulation of Einstein equations for special statistical structures that generalizes the usual Einstein equations for pseudo-Riemannian metrics and is of independent interest. A conelike radiant structure is a not necessarily flat affine connection equipped with a family of surfaces that behave like the intersections of the planes through the origin with a convex cone in a real vector space. A radiant structure is a torsion-free affine connection and a vector field whose covariant derivative is the identity endomorphism. A radiant structure is conelike if for every point and every two-dimensional subspace containing the radiant vector field there is a totally geodesic surface passing through the point and tangent to the subspace. Such structures exist on the total space of any principal bundle with one-dimensional fiber and on any Lie group with a quadratic structure on its Lie algebra. The affine connection of a conelike radiant structure can be normalized in a canonical way to have antisymmetric Ricci tensor. Applied to a conelike radiant structure on the total space of a principal bundle with one-dimensional fiber this yields a generalization of the classical Thomas connection of a projective structure. The compatibility of radiant and conelike structures with metrics is investigated and yields a construction of connections for which the symmetrized Ricci curvature is a constant multiple of a compatible metric that generalizes well-known constructions of Riemannian and Lorentzian Einstein–Weyl structures over Kähler–Einstein manifolds having nonzero scalar curvature. A formulation of Einstein equations for special statistical manifolds is given that generalizes the Einstein–Weyl equations and encompasses these more general examples. There are constructed left-invariant conelike radiant structures on a Lie group endowed with a left-invariant nondegenerate bilinear form, and the case of three-dimensional unimodular Lie groups is described in detail.
Funder
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Applied Mathematics,Computational Theory and Mathematics,Computer Science Applications,Geometry and Topology,Statistics and Probability
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