Geometry and BMS Lie algebras of spatially isotropic homogeneous spacetimes

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2019)119zbMATH Open1421.83031arXiv1905.00034WikidataQ127341585 ScholiaQ127341585MaRDI QIDQ2273463FDOQ2273463

Authors: Ross Grassie, Stefan Prohazka, José Figueroa-O'Farrill 

Publication date: 23 September 2019

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Simply-connected homogeneous spacetimes for kinematical and aristotelian Lie algebras (with space isotropy) have recently been classified in all dimensions. In this paper, we continue the study of these "maximally symmetric" spacetimes by investigating their local geometry. For each such spacetime and relative to exponential coordinates, we calculate the (infinitesimal) action of the kinematical symmetries, paying particular attention to the action of the boosts, showing in almost all cases that they act with generic non-compact orbits. We also calculate the soldering form, the associated vielbein and any invariant aristotelian, galilean or carrollian structures. The (conformal) symmetries of the galilean and carrollian structures we determine are typically infinite-dimensional and reminiscent of BMS Lie algebras. We also determine the space of invariant affine connections on each homogeneous spacetime and work out their torsion and curvature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00034

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zbMATH Keywords

differential and algebraic geometryspace-time symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Lie algebras of linear algebraic groups (17B45)

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