Skew-symmetric prolongations of Lie algebras and applications

zbMATH Open1264.53033arXiv0712.1398MaRDI QIDQ4909050FDOQ4909050

Authors: Paul-Andi Nagy 

Publication date: 12 March 2013

Abstract: We study the skew-symmetric prolongation of a Lie subalgebra $gsubseteqmathfrakso(n)$, in other words the intersection $Lambd{a}^{3}cap(Lambd{a}^{1}otimesg)$.We compute this space in full generality. Applications include uniqueness results for connections with skew-symmetric torsion and also the proof of the Euclidean version of a conjecture posed in cite{ofarill} concerning a class of Pl"ucker-type embeddings. We also derive a classification of the metric k-Lie algebras (or Filipov algebras), in positive signature and finite dimension. Prolongations of Lie algebras can also be used to finish the classification, started in cite{datri}, of manifolds admitting Killing frames, or equivalently flat connections with 3-form torsion. Next we study specific properties of invariant 4-forms of a given metric representation and apply these considerations to classify the holonomy representation of metric connections with vectorial torsion, that is with torsion contained in $Lambd{a}^{1}subseteqLambd{a}^{1}otimesLambd{a}^2$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1398

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zbMATH Keywords

vectorial torsionconnection with skew symmetricskew-symmetric prolongation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29)

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