Determination of the metric from the connection

arXivmath-ph/0609075MaRDI QIDQ6469786FDOQ6469786

Publication date: 26 September 2006

Abstract: As is well known, a metric on a manifold determines a unique symmetric connection for which the metric is parallel: the Levi-Civita connection. In this paper we investigate the inverse problem: to what extent is the metric of a Riemannian manifold determined by its Levi-Civita connection? It is shown that for a generic Levi-Civita connection of a metric

h

there exists a set of positive semi-definite tensor fields

h_{a}

such that the parallel metrics are the positive-definite linear combinations of the

h_{a}

. Moreover, the set of all parallel metrics may be constructed by a soley algebraic procedure.

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