Connections and symmetries in spacetime (Q1101692)
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Connections and symmetries in spacetime (English)
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1988
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The extent to which a symmetric metric connection on spacetime determines the metric is given in form of a table relating the possible types of the holonomy algebra to the metric freedom. From these results conditions for the possibly existing symmetries (affine collineations) can be derived.
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symmetric metric connection
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holonomy algebra
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affine collineations
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