Using the non-symmetry of a connection, it is possible to introduce four types of covariant derivatives. Based on these derivatives, several types of Ricci's identities and twelve curvature tensors are obtained. Five of them are linearly independent but the other curvature tensors can be expressed as linear combinations of these five linearly independent curvature tensors and the curvature tensor of the corresponding associated symmetric space. The semisymmetric connection is defined and the properties of two of the five independent curvature tensors are analyzed. In the same manner, the properties for three others curvature tensors may be derived.
In the present paper generalizations of conformal curvature tensor from
Riemannian space are given for five independent curvature tensors in
generalized Riemannian space (GRN ), i.e. when the basic tensor is
non-symmetric. In earlier works of S. Mincic and M. Zlatanovic et al a
special case has been investigated, that is the case when in the conformal
transformation the torsion remains invariant (equitorsion transformation). In
the present paper this condition is not supposed and for that reason the
results are more general and new.
Our study is developed in a general framework, namely a manifold M endowed with a (1,1)tensor field ϕ, which is integrable. The present paper solves the following two problems: how many linear connections with torsion and without torsion exist, having the property of being parallel with respect to ϕ. To count all these connections with the given properties, certain algebraic techniques and results are used throughout the paper.
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