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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

Description

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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 .

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The connection  is said to be symmetric if its torsion tensor  vanishes.

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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.

Examples

 

Example 1.

First create a 2 dimensional manifold  and define a connection on the tangent space of .

(2.1)
M > 

(2.2)
M > 

(2.3)

 

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.

M > 

M > 

(2.4)
M1 > 

(2.5)
M1 > 

(2.6)

See Also

DifferentialGeometry, Tensor, Christoffel, Physics[Christoffel], Connection, CovariantDerivative, Physics[D_], DirectionalCovariantDerivative


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