Connections on a non-symmetric (generalized) Riemannian manifold and gravity

Connections with (skew-symmetric) torsion on a non-symmetric Riemannian manifold satisfying the Einstein metricity condition (non-symmetric gravitation theory (NGT) with torsion) are considered. It is shown that an almost Hermitian manifold is NGT with torsion if and only if it is a nearly Kähler manifold. In the case of an almost contact metric manifold the NGT with torsion spaces are characterized and a possibly new class of almost contact metric manifolds is extracted. Similar considerations lead to a definition of a particular class of almost para-Hermitian and almost paracontact metric manifolds. Conditions are given in terms of the corresponding Nijenhuis tensors and the exterior derivative of the skew-symmetric part of the non-symmetric Riemannian metric. (paper)