A Clifford bundle approach to the differential geometry of branes

DOI10.1007/S00006-014-0452-6MaRDI QIDQ483086zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Waldyr A. jun. Rodrigues, Samuel Augusto Wainer

Publication date 15 December 2014

Published in Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4007

zbMATH Keywords

pseudo-Euclidean spacebranesgeometry of submanifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global submanifolds (53C40) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: The Clifford bundle formalism (CBF) of differential forms and the theory of extensors acting on $mathcalCell(M,g)$ is first used for a fomulation of the intrinsic geometry of a differential manifold $M$ equipped with a metric field $$ of signature $(p,q)$ and an arbitrary metric compatible connection $abla$ introducing the torsion (2-1)-extensor field $au$, the curvature $(2-2)$ extensor field $mathfrakR$ and (once fixing a gauge) the connection $(1-2)$-extensor $omega$ and the Ricci operator $$ (where $$ is the Dirac operator acting on sections of $mathcalCell(M,g)$) which plays an important role in this paper. Next, using the CBF we give a thoughtful presentation the Riemann or the Lorentzian geometry of an orientable submanifold $M$ ($dimM=m$) living in a manifold $mathringM$ (such that $mathringMsimeqmathbb{R}^n$ is equipped with a semi-Riemannian metric $$ with signature $(mathringp,mathringq)$ and $mathringp+mathringq=n$ and its Levi-Civita connection $mathringD$) and where there is defined a metric $$, where $$ $MightarrowmathringM$ is the inclusion map. We prove several equivalent forms for the curvature operator $mathfrakR$ of $M$. It is shown that the Ricci operator of $M$ is the (negative) square of the shape operator $mathbfS$ of $M$. Also we disclose the relationship between the connection (1-2%)-extensor $omega$ and the shape biform $mathcalS$ (an object related to $mathbfS$). We hope that our presentation will be useful for differential geometers and theoretical physists interested, e.g, in string and brane theories and relativity theory.

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