A note on flat metric connections with antisymmetric torsion

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2010.01.004zbMATH Open1201.53052arXiv0911.1602OpenAlexW2962809164WikidataQ115156379 ScholiaQ115156379MaRDI QIDQ980903FDOQ980903

Thomas Friedrich, Ilka Agricola

Publication date: 8 July 2010

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

Abstract: In this short note we study flat metric connections with antisymmetric torsion $Teq0$. The result has been originally discovered by Cartan/Schouten in 1926 and we provide a new proof not depending on the classification of symmetric spaces. Any space of that type splits and the irreducible factors are compact simple Lie group or a special connection on $S^7$. The latter case is interesting from the viewpoint of $G_2$-structures and we discuss its type in the sense of the Fernandez-Gray classification. Moreover, we investigate flat metric connections of vectorial type.

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

zbMATH Keywords

flat connectionskew-symmetric torsion\(G_2\)-structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(G)-structures (53C10) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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