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We analyse the Einstein-Cartan gravity in its standard form cal-R = R + cal-K^2, where cal-R and R are the Ricci scalar curvatures in the Einstein-Cartan and Einstein gravity, respectively, and cal-K^2 is the quadratic contribution of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-04 A. N. Ivanov , M. Wellenzohn

A system of differential forms will establish a topology and a topological structure on a domain of independent variables such that is possible to determine which maps or processes acting on the system are continuous. Perhaps the most…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. M. Kiehn , Phil Baldwin

Any oriented $4$-dimensional Einstein metric with semi-definite sectional curvature satisfies the pointwise inequality \[ \frac{|s|}{\sqrt{6}}\geq|W^+|+|W^-|, \] where $s$, $W^+$ and $W^-$ are respectively the scalar curvature, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Luca F. Di Cerbo

We study the initial value problem in Einstein-Cartan theory which includes torsion and, therefore, a non-symmetric connection on the spacetime manifold. Generalizing the path of a classical theorem by Choquet-Bruhat and York for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-29 Paulo Luz , Filipe C. Mena

$[n+1]$-dimensional ($n\geq 3$) smooth Einsteinian spaces of Euclidean and Lorentzian signature are considered. The base manifold $M$ is supposed to be smoothly foliated by a two-parameter family of codimension-two-surfaces which are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-16 István Rácz

We review the application of torsion in field theory. First we show how the notion of torsion emerges in differential geometry. In the context of a Cartan circuit, torsion is related to translations similar as curvature to rotations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-11-12 Friedrich W. Hehl , Yuri N. Obukhov

In the present paper we construct differential invariants for generic rank 2 vector distributions on n-dimensional manifold. In the case n=5 (the first case containing functional parameters) E. Cartan found in 1910 the covariant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Igor Zelenko

We give a new expression for the supercurrent and its conservation in curved ${\cal N}=1$, $D=4$ superspace using the superconformal approach. The first component of the superfield, whose lowest component is the vector auxiliary field gives…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Sergio Ferrara , Marine Samsonyan , Magnus Tournoy , Antoine Van Proeyen

In this paper, we study the coupled Einstein constraint equations on complete manifolds through the conformal method, focusing on non-compact manifolds with flexible asymptotics. This is physically well-motivated by standard cosmological…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Rodrigo Avalos , Jorge Lira , Nicolas Marque

This paper focuses on the Einstein-Cartan theory, an extension of general relativity that incorporates a torsion tensor into spacetime. The differential form technique is employed to analyze the Einstein-Cartan theory, which replaces…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Sagar V. Soni , A. C. Khunt , A. H. Hasmani

Using Cartan's equivalence method for point transformations we obtain from first principles the conformal geometry associated with third order ODEs and a special class of PDEs in two dimensions. We explicitly construct the null tetrads of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Emanuel Gallo , Mirta Iriondo , Carlos Kozameh

In Einstein theory of gravity the initial configuration of metric field and its time derivative are related to matter configuration by four equations called constraints. We use the method of conformal metrics (York Method) to solve…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Houri Ziaeepour

On a given closed connected manifold of dimension two, or greater, we consider the squared $L^2$-norm of the scalar curvature functional over the space of constant volume Riemannian metrics. We prove that its critical points have constant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Santiago R Simanca

In this paper we introduce two new notions of sectional curvature for Riemannian manifolds with density. Under both notions of curvature we classify the constant curvature manifolds. We also prove generalizations of the theorems of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-27 William Wylie

This paper develops a method for solving Einstein's equation numerically on multi-cube representations of manifolds with arbitrary spatial topologies. This method is designed to provide a set of flexible, easy to use computational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Lee Lindblom , Bela Szilagyi , Nicholas W. Taylor

This dissertation consists of four parts. In Part I, we briefly review fundamental theories of gravity, performed experimental tests, and gravitational waves. The framework and the methods that we use in our calculations are discussed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-27 Saeed Mirshekari

Evans developed a classical unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism on the background of a spacetime obeying a Riemann-Cartan geometry. In an accompanying paper I, we analyzed this theory and summarized it in nine…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Friedrich W. Hehl , Yuri N. Obukhov

The unique Nature of the Lorentz group in four dimensions is the root cause of the many remarkable properties of the Einstein spacetimes, in particular their operational structure on the 2-forms. We show how this operational structure can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-19 Jack C. M. Hughes , Fedor V. Kusmartsev

We consider general relativity with cosmological constant minimally coupled to electromagnetic field and assume that four-dimensional space-time manifold is the warped product of two surfaces with Lorentzian and Euclidean signature metrics.…

General Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 D. E. Afanasev , M. O. Katanaev

This paper reviews the Einstein Cartan theory (ECT), the famous extension of general relativity (GR) in presence of spacetime torsion. The vacuum equations are derived step by step. Vielbein formulation is discussed for determining the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-16 Richa Kapoor