Einstein gravity, Lagrange-Finsler geometry, and nonsymmetric metrics

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2008.071MaRDI QIDQ1018735zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Sergiu I. Vacaru

Publication date 21 May 2009

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3810, https://eudml.org/doc/55470

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zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear connectionsnonholonomic manifoldsnonsymmetric metricsEisenhart-Lagrange spacesgeneralized Riemann-Finsler geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53B40) Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)

Abstract: We formulate an approach to the geometry of Riemann-Cartan spaces provided with nonholonomic distributions defined by generic off-diagonal and nonsymmetric metrics inducing effective nonlinear and affine connections. Such geometries can be modelled by moving nonholonomic frames on (pseudo) Riemannian manifolds and describe various types of nonholonomic Einstein, Eisenhart-Moffat and Finsler-Lagrange spaces with connections compatible to a general nonsymmetric metric structure. Elaborating a metrization procedure for arbitrary distinguished connections, we define the class of distinguished linear connections which are compatible with the nonlinear connection and general nonsymmetric metric structures. The nonsymmetric gravity theory is formulated in terms of metric compatible connections. Finally, there are constructed such nonholonomic deformations of geometric structures when the Einstein and/or Lagrange-Finsler manifolds are transformed equivalently into spaces with generic local anisotropy induced by nonsymmetric metrics and generalized connections. We speculate on possible applications of such geometric methods in Einstein and generalized theories of gravity, analogous gravity and geometric mechanics.

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