1. Introduction
Invariants for different mappings of symmetric and non-symmetric affine connection spaces have been obtained by different authors. The generalizations of the Weyl conformal and the Weyl projective tensor and the Thomas projective parameters are objects that have been generalized in different papers about invariants for geometric mappings.
Vesić [
1] developed the methodology of obtaining invariants for mappings defined on symmetric and non-symmetric affine connection spaces. We develop one result obtained in [
1] below.
1.1. Affine Connection Spaces
An
N-dimensional manifold
equipped with an affine connection ∇ is the affine connection space. If this affine connection is torsion-free, i.e., if
the pair
is symmetric affine connection space
(see [
2,
3]).
The affine connection coefficients of the space are , .
The partial derivative of a tensor
of the type
by
,
, is not a tensor. the covariant derivative
of the tensor
by
is the tensor of the type
, whose components are
Remark 1. For a tensor of the type , the partial derivative is not a tensor, but the tensor is the corresponding covariant derivative: With respect to symmetric affine connection
and for the tensor
of type
, one Ricci identity exists [
2,
3]:
for the curvature tensor
of the space
given as
The Ricci tensor of space
is
By the anti-symmetrization of the Ricci tensor
without division, the next geometrical object is obtained:
1.2. Riemannian Spaces
Special symmetric affine connection spaces are
the Riemannian spaces [
2,
3,
4].
Let a symmetric metric tensor
of the type
, whose components are
,
, be defined at any point of the manifold
. The pair
is Riemannian space
(see [
2,
3,
4]).
We assume that the matrix is non-degenerate, i.e., . The components of the contravariant metric tensor are , determined by .
The Christoffel symbols uniquely determine the affine connection of the space . The affine connection coefficients of are .
Analogously to the case of space
, covariant derivative of the tensor
by
with respect to the affine connection
is defined as [
2,
3]
The corresponding Ricci identity is [
2,
3]
where
is the curvature tensor of space
.
The Ricci tensor of space
is
The scalar curvature of space
is
1.3. Geodesic Mappings
The affine connection coefficients
and the Christoffel symbols
are not tensors. With respect to transformation of coordinate systems
, the corresponding transformation rules are [
2,
3]
for
,
,
.
The differences and are tensors. These tensors are named the deformation tensors.
It was found [
2,
3] that after adding a tensor of the type
, symmetric by covariant indices, to any of affine connection coefficients,
or
, the resulting sums are affine connection coefficients. That is the motivation for studying the transformation rules of curvature tensors
or
caused by transformations of affine connection coefficients
or
. Transformations like that are called
the mappings.
Before we present the motivational results for our current research, we need to define the geodesic lines of manifolds [
2,
3].
A curve
that satisfies the corresponding system of the following differential equations:
where
and
are scalar functions and
t is a scalar parameter, is the geodesic line of the corresponding spaces
and
, respectively.
The mappings and , which any geodesic line of spaces or transform to a geodesic line of the corresponding space or , are called the geodesic mappings of symmetric affine connection space or Riemannian space , respectively.
The basic equations of geodesic mappings
and
are [
2,
3]
for the 1-forms
and
.
Invariant geometrical structures under transformation (16) of the corresponding affine connection coefficients are the Thomas projective parameters [
2,
3,
5]:
The geometrical objects that are invariant under the transformation of curvature tensors
and
caused by Equation (14) are the corresponding Weyl projective tensors [
2,
3,
6]:
The Thomas projective parameters (17) and the Weyl projective tensors (18) and (19) are invariants for the corresponding geodesic mappings.
Because geodesic mappings are not only transformations of affine connections, different authors have been motivated to obtain invariants for mappings of affine connection and Riemannian spaces.
Many authors have obtained invariants for different mappings of symmetric and non-symmetric affine connection spaces. Some of them are J. Mikeš with his research group [
2,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15], V. E. Berezovski [
13,
14,
15], M.S. Stanković [
16], M.Lj. Zlatanović [
17,
18], and many others.
These invariants are used as the motivation for obtaining invariants for mappings of non-symmetric affine connection spaces. Some interesting invariants were obtained in [
17,
18,
19].
N. O. Vesić was motivated to develop the methodology for obtaining invariants for geometric mappings of symmetric and non-symmetric affine connections spaces. The corresponding results were presented in [
1].
The formulas presented in [
1] were applied in [
19] for obtaining invariants of the corresponding geometric mappings. We were motivated by the results presented in [
1] to obtain invariants for mappings determined with a deformation tensor of a special form in this paper.
1.4. Motivation from Physics and Two Kinds of Invariants
When stating the Theory of General Relativity, A. Einstein stated the corresponding principles. The most important of these principles in this paper is [
20]
the Principle of General Covariance. This principle states that the laws of physics maintain the same form under a specified set of transformations.
If we make them parallel with invariants for different geometric mappings, we may see that they have the same forms before and after transformations.
In an attempt to generalize this mathematical property of invariants for mappings, Vesić and Simjanović defined different kinds of invariance for geometrical objects.
Definition 1 (see [
19]).
Let be a mapping, and let be a geometrical object of the type :If the transformation f preserves the value of the object , but changes its form to , then the invariance for geometrical object under transformation f is valued.
If the transformation f preserves both the value and the form of the geometrical object , then the invariance for the geometrical object under transformation f is total.
Valued invariants for the third-type almost-geodesic mappings of a non-symmetric affine connection space and the basic condition for them to be total were obtained in [
19].
1.5. Motivation
In [
1], the methodology for obtaining invariants for mappings of affine connection spaces is presented. As basics for these invariants, the author used transformation rule:
for geometrical objects
,
of the type
, such that
and
. Based on Equation (20), the associated basic invariants of the Thomas and Weyl type for this mapping are obtained [
1]:
Moreover, Vesić considered [
1] the case of difference
expressed as the sum of
, for 1-form
, and tensor
symmetric by
j and
k and obtained the single invariant of the Thomas type and two invariants of the Weyl type for a mapping. In this paper, we will develop this research with respect to expression
for the tensors
and
of the type
, which are symmetric by
j and
k.
The main purpose of this paper is to obtain invariants for mappings whose deformation tensor is of the form , , . We obtained these results for mappings of symmetric affine connection spaces and point out the corresponding results of mappings defined on Riemannian spaces of Eisenhart’s sense.
Sinyukov used the covariant vector
such that
,
, to obtain invariants for the third-type almost-geodesic mappings. Our next aim in this paper is to obtain the geometrical object
from the invariant [
3]:
2. Review of Basic and Derived Invariants
Let us consider a mapping
whose deformation tensor is [
1]
for geometrical objects
,
of the type
symmetric by
j and
k.
After contracting Equation (23) by
i and
k, one obtains [
1]
If substituting Equation (24) in (23), one obtains [
1]:
If we compare Equation (25) with (20), we obtain
Therefore, the corresponding basic invariants are
for
, i.e.,
.
The basic invariant
may be expressed as
for
The transformed invariant
is
for
The equality
, i.e.,
After contracting Equation (33) by
i and
n, we obtain
Equation (34) should be rewritten in the more suitable form:
for
and the corresponding
.
If we substitute the expression (35) in Equation (33), we obtain
for
and the corresponding
.
The next theorem is proven in this way.
Theorem 1. Let be a mapping determined by deformation tensor for the one-form and the tensors , of the type (1,2) symmetric by covariant indices.
The geometrical object given by (27) is the associated basic invariant of the Thomas type for the mapping f.
The geometrical object equivalently given by Equations (28) and (29) is the associated basic invariant of the Weyl type for the mapping f.
The geometrical object given by(37) is the derived associative invariant of the Weyl type for the mapping f.
Because the forms of invariants , , coincide with the forms of their images, , , , these invariants are total.
3. Invariants for Third-Type almost-Geodesic Mappings
In an attempt to generalize the concept of geodesic lines, Sinyukov started the research about almost-geodesic lines.
Definition 2 (see [
3,
21]).
A curve on manifold , equipped with the affine connections and whose coefficients are and , is the almost-geodesic line
with respect to the affine connection if the next equation holds:where and are scalar functions.
A mapping , which any geodesic line of the space transforms to an almost geodesic line of the space , is the almost-geodesic mapping of symmetric affine connection space .
Sinyukov recognized three types of almost-geodesic mappings [
2,
3]
,
,
. The almost-geodesic mapping
of a type
,
, has the property of reciprocity if its inverse mapping is the almost-geodesic mapping of the type
.
In the literature, different authors obtained invariants for almost-geodesic mappings, which have the property of reciprocity.
The basic equations of almost-geodesic mapping
are [
2,
3]
for the scalar function
, 1-forms
,
, and symmetric tensor
of the type
.
Let us prove the following proposition.
Proposition 1. The tensor and the vector from the basic Equation (46)
satisfy the following equation: for .
Proof. After contracting the second of basic Equation (46), we obtain the equation
The covariant derivatives of the left and right sides of Equation (48) in the direction of
are equal to
which completes the proof for this proposition. □
Let us combine Sinyukov’s methodology for obtaining invariants for almost-geodesic mappings of the third type and the corresponding formulas from [
1], in this paper listed in Equations (27)–(29), to obtain invariants for almost-geodesic mapping
of the type
.
We know that almost-geodesic mappings of the type
have the property of reciprocity [
3]. Sinyukov involved the covariant vector
such that (see [
3], p. 193)
Because the almost-geodesic mapping
f has the property of reciprocity, we may involve the corresponding geometrical objects
and
such that
After some computation, Sinyukov obtained the invariant (with respect to transformation of affine connection coefficients ) for the almost-geodesic mapping .
The form of invariant
is
In this case, the invariant
given by (51) takes the form
After comparing Equations (54) and (21), we obtain
i.e.,
After some computing and with respect to the Ricci identity (3), one obtains that the geometrical object
for
, is the basic invariant of the Thomas type for the almost-geodesic mapping
f. This invariant is total.
After taking the image
of the invariant
given by (56), we obtain
for
, the image
of vector
from the first of basic Equation (46), and the corresponding
such that
,
.
Because
, and with respect to the second of the basic Equation (46), the next equalities hold
, i.e.,
The next equation also holds.
With respect to Equation (20) and after comparing this equation with Equation (23), we obtain
For the reason of , we obtain that .
To present the corresponding invariants, we need the next expressions.
for the corresponding geometrical objects
,
,
,
,
, and
uniquely determined by Equations (63) and (65)–(69).
After substituting the expression (65) in (21), we obtain the associated basic invariant for the almost-geodesic mapping
f, whose components are
for
given by (52) and
expressed with Equation (65).
If substituting the expressions (64) and (65), (67)–(69) in Equation (22), one obtains the basic invariant for the almost-geodesic mapping
f, whose components are
Analogously as above, with respect to Equation (37) and the expressions (36), (65), (66), (68), and (69), we obtain the derived invariant of the Weyl type for mapping
f whose components are
for
In this way, the following theorem was proven.
Theorem 3. Let be an almost geodesic mapping of the type .
The geometrical object given by (70) is the associated basic invariant of the Thomas type for the mapping f.
The geometrical object given by (71) is the associated basic invariant of the Weyl type for the mapping f.
The geometrical object given by (72) is the associated derived invariant of the Weyl type for the mapping f.
The invariants (70)–(72) for mapping f are total.