On the compatibility of Lorentz metrics with linear connections on four-dimensional manifolds

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/12/009MaRDI QIDQ5201563zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David P. Lonie, G. S. Hall

Publication date 19 April 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0509067

zbMATH Keywords

curvaturecompatibilitylinear connectionsLorentz metricsinfinitesimal holonomy algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Connections (general theory) (53C05)

Abstract: This paper considers 4-dimensional manifolds upon which there is a Lorentz metric, h, and a symmetric connection and which are originally assumed unrelated. It then derives sufficient conditions on the metric and connection (expressed through the curvature tensor) for the connection to be the Levi-Civita connection of some (local) Lorentz metric, g, and calculates the relationship between g and h. Some examples are provided which help to assess the strength of the sufficient conditions derived.

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