A note on flat metric connections with antisymmetric torsion

DOI10.1016/j.difgeo.2010.01.004zbMath1201.53052arXiv0911.1602WikidataQ115156379 ScholiaQ115156379MaRDI QIDQ980903

Thomas Friedrich, Ilka Agricola

Publication date: 8 July 2010

Published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1602

zbMATH Keywords

flat connection; skew-symmetric torsion; \(G_2\)-structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

53C25: Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.)

53C10: (G)-structures

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