A unified framework for Lie and covariant differentiation (with application to tensor fields)

DOI10.1063/1.1343091zbMath1016.53015MaRDI QIDQ2774868

Donal J. Hurley, Michael A. Vandyck

Publication date: 26 February 2002

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1343091

zbMATH Keywords

spinor fields; \(D\) differentiation; generalized curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

58A05: Differentiable manifolds, foundations

53B15: Other connections

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