Gravity on finite groups

DOI10.1007/S002200100409MaRDI QIDQ5940407zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. Castellani

Publication date 9 August 2001

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9909028

zbMATH Keywords

bicovariant calculusdiffeomorphismfinite groupgravity theoryintegrationinvariant integral actionLie derivativepermutation group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory for finite permutation groups (20B05) Methods of noncommutative geometry in general relativity (83C65)

Abstract: Gravity theories are constructed on finite groups G. A self-consistent review of the differential calculi on finite G is given, with some new developments. The example of a bicovariant differential calculus on the nonabelian finite group S_3 is treated in detail, and used to build a gravity-like field theory on S_3.

Review text

The manifolds of finite groups G are used to construct gravity theories. The physical motivations are provided by the possibility of using the finite group spaces as internal spaces for Kaluza-Klein compactifications of supergravity or superstring theories, the study of integrable models in the statistical physics and developments of gauge and gravity theories as lattice approximations. A review of the differential calculus on finite groups \(G\) is presented and some new concepts like Lie derivative, diffeomorphisms and integration are introduced. The general theory is illustrated in the case of the permutation group \(S(3)\) (non-abelian and finite). A bicovariant differential calculus is developed and the results are used to build a gravity-like field theory on \(S(3)\). An integral of action, invariant under the local ad(\(G\)) transformations is obtained, in analogy with the local Lorentz rotations of general relativity.

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