Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4606107 Differential Geometry and its Applications 2014 12 Pages PDF
Abstract

We prove that, in dimensions greater than 2, the generic metric is not a Hessian metric and find a curvature condition on Hessian metrics in dimensions greater than 3. In particular we prove that the forms used to define the Pontryagin classes in terms of the curvature vanish on a Hessian manifold. By contrast all analytic Riemannian 2-metrics are Hessian metrics.

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