A TORSIONAL TOPOLOGICAL INVARIANT
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Publication:3500364
DOI10.1142/S0217751X07038414zbMATH Open1200.83054arXiv1309.0915OpenAlexW2094317162MaRDI QIDQ3500364FDOQ3500364
Authors: Hwa-Tung Nieh 
Publication date: 3 June 2008
Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Curvature and torsion are the two tensors characterizing a general Riemannian spacetime. In Einstein's general theory of gravitation, with torsion postulated to vanish and the affine connection identified to the Christoffel symbol, only the curvature tensor plays the central role. For such a purely metric geometry, two well-known topological invariants, namely the Euler class and the Pontryagin class, are useful in characterizing the topological properties of the spacetime. From a gauge theory point of view, and especially in the presence of spin, torsion naturally comes into play, and the underlying spacetime is no longer purely metric. We describe a torsional topological invariant, discovered in 1982, that has now found increasing usefulness in recent developments.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.0915
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