Chronoprojective Cartan structures on four-dimensional manifolds

DOI10.2977/PRIMS/1195182453MaRDI QIDQ794293zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Burdet, M. Perrin, Christian Duval

Publication date 1983

Published in Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2977/prims/1195182453

zbMATH Keywords

Cartan connectionchronoprojective connectionchronoprojective geometrychronoprojective Weyl curvature tensorGalilean manifoldgeneralized Möbius space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other special differential geometries (53A40) Other connections (53B15) Connections (general theory) (53C05) (G)-structures (53C10) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

Review text

In this paper a new geometry, the so-called chronoprojective geometry, is constructed over four dimensional manifolds. First the Lie groups involved in the construction are described, namely the chronoprojective group denoted \(O^ 2(3)\), a subgroup of GL(5,\({\mathbb{R}})\) which leaves invariant a particular degenerate quadratic form, and its subgroups \(L^ 0\) and \(L^ 1: L^ 0\) is generated by the elements which admit t(00001) as eigenvector and \(L^ 1\) is the linear isotropy subgroup of \(O^ 2(3)/L^ 0\). The homogeneous space \(O^ 2(3)/L^ 0\) can be written as \((R^ 3\otimes S^ 1)| {\mathbb{Z}}^ 2\) and so appears as a generalized Möbius space, the so-called chronoprojective space-time. Then a chronoprojective connection is defined as a Cartan connection in a principal bundle \(P(V_ 4,L^ 0)\) with respect to the chronoprojective group. As P can be realized as a subbundle of \(P^ 2(V_ 4)\) the fibre bundle of second order frames on \(V_ 4\), the notions of chronoprojective Cartan structure on \(V_ 4\), admissible linear connections and chronoprojective equivalence can be introduced. The chronoprojective Weyl curvature tensor is constructed explicitly and it is shown that the chronoprojective flatness is equivalent to the vanishing of the chronoprojective Weyl curvature tensor. In the last part of the paper all the above established results are explicitly applied to a Galilean manifold \((V_ 4,\psi,\gamma)\) (\(\psi\) being a differential one-form of class one and \(\gamma\) a positive semi-definite symmetric contravariant tensor field of degree two such that ker \(\gamma\) is generated by \(\psi)\).

Recommendations

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3859920
• Projective structure and holonomy in four-dimensional Lorentz manifolds
• GEOMETRY OF t-PROJECTIVE STRUCTURES
• Projective connections
• Holonomy and projective equivalence in 4-dimensional Lorentz manifolds

Cites work

• Cartan structures on Galilean manifolds: The chronoprojective geometry
• Conformal Connections and Conformal Transformations
• Geometry Associated with Semisimple Flat Homogeneous Spaces
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3179223 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3389898 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3191725 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3086606 (Why is no real title available?)
• On Connections Of Cartan
• Projective Connections and Projective Transformations
• Theory of conformal connections

Cited in

(4)

• A geometric insight into the Fokker-Planck equation
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3859920 (Why is no real title available?)
• Cartan geometry, supergravity and group manifold approach.
• Null lifts and projective dynamics

This page was built for publication: Chronoprojective Cartan structures on four-dimensional manifolds

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q794293)