Nonholonomic Riemann and Weyl tensors for flag manifolds

DOI10.1007/S11232-007-0131-ZzbMATH Open1141.17019arXivmath/0509399OpenAlexW2136214877MaRDI QIDQ2480110FDOQ2480110

Authors: P. Grozman, Dimitry Leites 

Publication date: 31 March 2008

Published in: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: On any manifold, any non-degenerate symmetric 2-form (metric) and any skew-symmetric (differential) form W can be reduced to a canonical form at any point, but not in any neighborhood: the respective obstructions being the Riemannian tensor and dW. The obstructions to flatness (to reducibility to a canonical form) are well-known for any G-structure, not only for Riemannian or symplectic structures. For the manifold with a nonholonomic structure (nonintegrable distribution), the general notions of flatness and obstructions to it, though of huge interest (e.g., in supergravity) were not known until recently, though particular cases were known for more than a century (e.g., any contact structure is ``flat: it can always be reduced, locally, to a canonical form). We give a general definition of the NONHOLONOMIC analogs of the Riemann and Weyl tensors. With the help of Premet's theorems and a package SuperLie we calculate these tensors for the particular case of flag varieties associated with each maximal (and several other) parabolic subalgebra of each simple Lie algebra. We also compute obstructions to flatness of the G(2)-structure and its nonholonomic super counterpart.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0509399

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zbMATH Keywords

Riemann tensorWeyl tensorLie algebra cohomologyCartan prolongationflag manifoldnonholonomic manifoldTanaka-Shchepochkina prolong

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) (G)-structures (53C10) Nonholonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles (70F25) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Nonholonomic dynamical systems (37J60) Supermanifolds and graded manifolds (58A50) Cohomology of Lie (super)algebras (17B56)

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Uses Software

• SuperLie

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