A nonlinear theory of distributional geometry

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2020.0642MaRDI QIDQ5161223zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 29 October 2021

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.03426, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7776972

zbMATH Keywords

analysisColombeau algebradiffeomorphism-invariantdistributional covariant derivativedistributional geometrymathematical physicsnonlinear generalized functionsrelativitytensor fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized functions for nonlinear analysis (Rosinger, Colombeau, nonstandard, etc.) (46F30) Distributions and generalized functions on nonlinear spaces (46T30) Differentiable manifolds, foundations (58A05)

Abstract: This paper builds on the theory of generalised functions begun in [1]. The Colombeau theory of generalised scalar fields on manifolds is extended to a nonlinear theory of generalised tensor fields which is diffeomorphism invariant and has the sheaf property. The generalised Lie derivative for generalised tensor fields is introduced and it is shown that this commutes with the embedding of distributional tensor fields. It is also shown that the covariant derivative of generalised tensor fields commutes with the embedding at the level of association. The concept of generalised metric is introduced and used to develop a nonsmooth theory of differential geometry. It is shown that the embedding of a continuous metric results in a generalised metric with well defined connection and curvature. It is also shown that a twice continuously differentiable metric which is a solution of the vacuum Einstein equations may be embedded into the algebra of generalised tensor fields and has generalised Ricci curvature associated to zero. Thus, the embedding preserves the Einstein equations at the level of association. Finally, we consider an example of a metric which lies outside the Geroch-Traschen class and show that in our diffeomorphism invariant theory the curvature of a cone is associated to a delta function.

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