On Metric-Connection Compatibility and the Signature Change of Space-Time

DOI10.1238/PHYSICA.REGULAR.066A00401MaRDI QIDQ4656308zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bozhidar Z. Iliev

Publication date 11 March 2005

Published in Physica Scripta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9802058

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: We discuss and investigate the problem of existence of metric-compatible linear connections for a given space-time metric which is, generally, assumed to be semi-pseudo-Riemannian. We prove that under sufficiently general conditions such connections exist iff the rank and signature of the metric are constant. On this base we analyze possible changes of the space-time signature.

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