Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

SIGMA 20 (2024), 078, 20 pages      arXiv:2401.00780      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2024.078
Contribution to the Special Issue on Symmetry, Invariants, and their Applications in honor of Peter J. Olver

Symmetries in Riemann-Cartan Geometries

David D. McNutt a, Alan A. Coley b and Robert J. van den Hoogen c
a) Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
b) Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
c) Department of Mathematics and Statistics, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

Received January 02, 2024, in final form August 21, 2024; Published online September 01, 2024

Abstract
Riemann-Cartan geometries are geometries that admit non-zero curvature and torsion tensors. These geometries have been investigated as geometric frameworks for potential theories in physics including quantum gravity theories and have many important differences when compared to Riemannian geometries. One notable difference, is the number of symmetries for a Riemann-Cartan geometry is potentially smaller than the number of Killing vector fields for the metric. In this paper, we will review the investigation of symmetries in Riemann-Cartan geometries and the mathematical tools used to determine geometries that admit a given group of symmetries. As an illustration, we present new results by determining all static spherically symmetric and all stationary spherically symmetric Riemann-Cartan geometries. Furthermore, we have determined the subclasses of spherically symmetric Riemann-Cartan geometries that admit a seven-dimensional group of symmetries.

Key words: symmetry; Riemann-Cartan; frame formalism; local homogeneity.

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