Tensor[TorsionTensor] - calculate the torsion tensor for a linear connection on the tangent bundle
Calling Sequences
TorsionTensor(C)
Parameters
C - a connection on the tangent bundle to a manifold
Description
Examples
See Also
Let be a manifold and let be a linear connection on the tangent bundle of . The torsion tensor of is the rank 3 tensor (tensor of type) defined by . Here are vector fields on .
The connection is said to be symmetric if its torsion tensor vanishes.
This command is part of the DifferentialGeometry:-Tensor package, and so can be used in the form TorsionTensor(...) only after executing the command with(DifferentialGeometry) and with(Tensor) in that order. It can always be used in the long form DifferentialGeometry:-Tensor:-TorsionTensor.
Example 1.
First create a 2 dimensional manifold and define a connection on the tangent space of .
Example 2.
Define a frame on and use this frame to specify a connection on the tangent space of . While the connection is "symmetric" in its covariant indices, it is not a symmetric connection.
DifferentialGeometry, Tensor, Christoffel, Physics[Christoffel], Connection, CovariantDerivative, Physics[D_], DirectionalCovariantDerivative
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