Symmetries of Spacetimes and Riemannian Manifolds

Authors

Krishan L. Duggal, University of Windsor
Ramesh Sharma, University of New HavenFollow

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Description

This book provides an upto date information on metric, connection and curva­ ture symmetries used in geometry and physics. More specifically, we present the characterizations and classifications of Riemannian and Lorentzian manifolds (in particular, the spacetimes of general relativity) admitting metric (i.e., Killing, ho­ mothetic and conformal), connection (i.e., affine conformal and projective) and curvature symmetries. Our approach, in this book, has the following outstanding features: (a) It is the first-ever attempt of a comprehensive collection of the works of a very large number of researchers on all the above mentioned symmetries. (b) We have aimed at bringing together the researchers interested in differential geometry and the mathematical physics of general relativity by giving an invariant as well as the index form of the main formulas and results. (c) Attempt has been made to support several main mathematical results by citing physical example(s) as applied to general relativity. (d) Overall the presentation is self contained, fairly accessible and in some special cases supported by an extensive list of cited references. (e) The material covered should stimulate future research on symmetries. Chapters 1 and 2 contain most of the prerequisites for reading the rest of the book. We present the language of semi-Euclidean spaces, manifolds, their tensor calculus; geometry of null curves, non-degenerate and degenerate (light like) hypersurfaces. All this is described in invariant as well as the index form.

ISBN

9780792357933

Publication Date

1999

Publisher

Kluwer Academic Publishers

City

Dodrecht

Keywords

Symmetries, spacetimes, Petrov classification

Subject: LCSH

Symmetry (Physics), Space and time, Riemannian manifolds

Disciplines

Mathematics

Comments

Series: Mathematics and its applications (Kluwer Academic Publishers), v. 487.

Repository Citation

Duggal, Krishan L. and Sharma, Ramesh, "Symmetries of Spacetimes and Riemannian Manifolds" (1999). Mathematics Faculty Book Series. 1.
https://digitalcommons.newhaven.edu/mathematics-books/1

Publisher Citation

Duggal, Krishan L., & Sharma, R. C. (1999). Symmetries of spacetimes and Riemannian manifolds. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.