Bi-invariant and noninvariant metrics on Lie groups

DOI10.1063/1.2793603zbMath1152.81447WikidataQ115333561 ScholiaQ115333561MaRDI QIDQ3544474

Ryad A. Ghanam, Firas Hindeleh, Gerard Thompson

Publication date: 8 December 2008

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2793603

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C30: Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds

22E60: Lie algebras of Lie groups

70G45: Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics

53C05: Connections (general theory)

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