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\tilde{J}

-Tangent Affine Hypersurfaces with an Induced Almost Paracontact Structure

by Zuzanna Szancer

Symmetry 2025, 17(6), 806; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym17060806 - 22 May 2025

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Abstract

The subjects of our study are affine hypersurfaces

f : M \to R^{2 n + 2}

considered with a transversal vector field C, which is

\tilde{J}

-tangent. By

\tilde{J}

we understand the canonical paracomplex structure on [...] Read more.

The subjects of our study are affine hypersurfaces

f : M \to R^{2 n + 2}

considered with a transversal vector field C, which is

\tilde{J}

-tangent. By

\tilde{J}

we understand the canonical paracomplex structure on

R^{2 n + 2}

. The vector field C induces on the hypersurface f an almost paracontact structure

(φ, ξ, η)

. We obtain a complete classification of hypersurfaces admitting a metric induced almost paracontact structure with respect to the second fundamental form. We show that, in this case, the

\tilde{J}

-tangent transversal vector field is restricted to centroaffine and the hypersurface must be a piece of hyperquadric. It is demonstrated that these hyperquadrics have a very specific form. A three-dimensional example is also given. Moreover, we establish an equivalence relation between almost paracontact metric structures, para

α

-contact metric structures, and para

α

-Sasakian structures. Methods of affine differential geometry, as well as paracomplex/paracontact geometry, are used. Full article

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematics)

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Natural Paracontact Magnetic Trajectories on Unit Tangent Bundles

by Mohamed Tahar Kadaoui Abbassi and Noura Amri

Axioms 2020, 9(3), 72; https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms9030072 - 30 Jun 2020

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Abstract

In this paper, we study natural paracontact magnetic trajectories in the unit tangent bundle, i.e., those that are associated to g-natural paracontact metric structures. We characterize slant natural paracontact magnetic trajectories as those satisfying a certain conservation law. Restricting to two-dimensional base manifolds of constant Gaussian curvature and to Kaluza–Klein type metrics on their unit tangent bundles, we give a full classification of natural paracontact slant magnetic trajectories (and geodesics). Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pseudo-Riemannian Metrics and Applications)

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Conformal Gauge Transformations in Thermodynamics

by Alessandro Bravetti, Cesar S Lopez-Monsalvo and Francisco Nettel

Entropy 2015, 17(9), 6150-6168; https://doi.org/10.3390/e17096150 - 2 Sep 2015

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In this work, we show that the thermodynamic phase space is naturally endowed with a non-integrable connection, defined by all of those processes that annihilate the Gibbs one-form, i.e., reversible processes. We argue that such a connection is invariant under re-scalings of the connection one-form, whilst, as a consequence of the non-integrability of the connection, its curvature is not and, therefore, neither is the associated pseudo-Riemannian geometry. We claim that this is not surprising, since these two objects are associated with irreversible processes. Moreover, we provide the explicit form in which all of the elements of the geometric structure of the thermodynamic phase space change under a re-scaling of the connection one-form. We call this transformation of the geometric structure a conformal gauge transformation. As an example, we revisit the change of the thermodynamic representation and consider the resulting change between the two metrics on the thermodynamic phase space, which induce Weinhold’s energy metric and Ruppeiner’s entropy metric. As a by-product, we obtain a proof of the well-known conformal relation between Weinhold’s and Ruppeiner’s metrics along the equilibrium directions. Finally, we find interesting properties of the almost para-contact structure and of its eigenvectors, which may be of physical interest. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geometry in Thermodynamics)

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