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- From: phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de (Hartmut Frommert)
- Subject: Re: Covariant vs. Lie Derivative in Gen. Rel.?
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- Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Constance
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 09:25:05 GMT
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- rscott@libws3.ic.sunysb.edu (Robert Scott) writes:
-
- >ISN'T IT EASY TO SHOW THAT THE LIE ALGEBRA OF SYMMETRIES OF AN
- >AFFINE CONNECTION ON A CONNECTED FINITE-DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLD IS
- >FINITE-DIMENSIONAL? THUS THE LIE ALGEBRA OF INFINITESIMAL
- >SYMPLECTOMORPHISMS OF A SYMPLECTIC MANIFOLD IS FAR TOO BIG TO
- >PRESERVE AN AFFINE CONNECTION.
-
- You confuse me a bit :)
-
- If I understand right, the covariant derivative must only preserve the
- symplectic metric j with components
-
- j_{ab} = j_{[ab]} = - j_{ba} ,
-
- not the set of all symplectic transformations, to obtain a metricity
- condition analogous to the Riemannian: There the Levi-Civita connection only
- leaves (pseudo)-orthogonal g invariant, not all elements of the Lorentz
- group. The symplectic metricity condition reads explicitely
-
- 0 == - j_{ab;c} = - j_{ab,c} + j_{db} G^d_{ac} + j_{ad} G^d_{bc} .
- ^^^^^^
- = - j_{da}
-
- The connection is then a 1-form with values in the symplectic Lie
- algebra which is defined as the set of all generators of transformations
- that leave j invariant, as the Riemannian is contained in the (local,
- [pseudo]-orthogonal) invariance group of g. As I tried to line out in a
- previous posting, I do not see a reasonable argument for uniquely fixing a
- symplectic-metric connection, which happens to be possible for the
- Riemannian by the demand of vanishing torsion, so that there remain
- connection components independent of j.
-
- BTW: The symplectic Lie algebra Sp(D,j) is of course finite-dimensional at
- each point, and the j-metric connection is contained in it by def. It is
- only infinite-dimensional (like the space of any scalar, vector, tensor,
- spinor, or isotensor fields, i.e. the corresponding bundle) when viewed
- non-locally, i.e. in some neighborhood, etc. Dimension of Sp(D,j) is
- D*(D+1)/2 if D is the dimension of the manifold under consideration.
- --
- Hartmut Frommert <phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de>
- Dept of Physics, Univ of Constance, P.O.Box 55 60, D-W-7750 Konstanz, Germany
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