Gravity on finite groups (Q5940407)

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.