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I apply the algebraic framework developed in [1] to study geometry of hyperbolic spaces in 1, 2, and 3 dimensions. The background material on projectivised Clifford algebras and their application to Cayley-Klein geometries is described in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Andrey Sokolov

The work extends the A. Connes' noncommutative geometry to spaces with generic local anisotropy. We apply the E. Cartan's anholonomic frame approach to geometrical models and physical theories and develop the nonlinear connection formalism…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergiu Vacaru

In this article, we review the current status of Finsler-Lagrange geometry and generalizations. The goal is to aid non-experts on Finsler spaces, but physicists and geometers skilled in general relativity and particle theories, to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-31 Sergiu I. Vacaru

We develop an axiomatic geometric approach and provide an unconventional review of modified gravity theories, MGTs, with modified dispersion relations, MDRs, encoding Lorentz invariance violations, LIVs, classical and quantum random…

General Physics · Physics 2018-01-22 Sergiu I. Vacaru

In these notes we introduce the Clifford algebra of a quadratic space using techniques from universal algebra and algebraic theory of quadratic forms. We also define the Clifford, Pin and Spin groups associated to the algebra, and study how…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Marcos R. A. Arcodía

We use Clifford algebras to construct a unified formalism for studying constant extrinsic curvature immersed surfaces in riemannian and semi-riemannian $3$-manifolds in terms of immersed bilegendrian surfaces in their unitary bundles. As an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Graham Smith

Associated with a symmetric Clifford system $\{P_0, P_1,\cdots, P_{m}\}$ on $\mathbb{R}^{2l}$, there is a canonical vector bundle $\eta$ over $S^{l-1}$. For $m=4$ and $8$, we construct explicitly its characteristic map, and determine…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-24 Chao Qian , Zizhou Tang , Wenjiao Yan

Co lombeau's construction of generalized functions (in its special variant) is extended to a theory of generalized sections of vector bundles. As particular cases, generalized tensor analysis and exterior algebra are studied. A point value…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Kunzinger , Roland Steinbauer

We propose a natural Fedosov type quantization of generalized Lagrange models and gravity theories with metrics lifted on tangent bundle, or extended to higher dimension, following some stated geometric/ physical conditions (for instance,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-08 Sergiu I. Vacaru

In this Master of Science Thesis I introduce geometric algebra both from the traditional geometric setting of vector spaces, and also from a more combinatorial view which simplifies common relations and operations. This view enables us to…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2008-11-07 Douglas Lundholm

In this paper we show how to describe the general theory of a linear metric compatible connection with the theory of Clifford valued differential forms. This is done by realizing that for each spacetime point the algebra of Clifford…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Capelas de Oliveira , W. A. Rodrigues

We introduce the concept of a Clifford-Weyl structure on a conformal manifold, which consists of an even Clifford structure parallel with respect to the tensor product of a metric connection on the Clifford bundle and a Weyl structure on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Charles Hadfield , Andrei Moroianu

The space of anisotropic $r$-contravariant $s$-covariant $\alpha$-homogeneous tensors on a manifold admits a functorial structure where vertical derivatives $\dot{\partial}$ and contractions $\imath_{\mathbb{C}}$ by the Liouville vector…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Miguel Sánchez , Fidel F. Villaseñor

We start from a new theory (discussed earlier) in which the arena for physics is not spacetime, but its straightforward extension-the so called Clifford space ($C$-space), a manifold of points, lines, areas, etc..; physical quantities are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 C. Castro , M. Pavsic

I apply the algebraic framework introduced in arXiv:1101.4542v3[math.MG] to Minkowski (pseudo-Euclidean) spaces in 2, 3, and 4 dimensions. The exposition follows the template established in arXiv:1307.2917[math.MG] for Euclidean spaces. The…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-19 Andrey Sokolov

In this paper we discuss generalized properties of non-associativity in Clifford bundles on the 7-sphere S7. Novel and prominent properties inherited from the non-associative structure of the Clifford bundle on S7 are demonstrated. They…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-10-10 Roldao da Rocha , M. A. Traesel , Jayme Vaz

In this article, we review some aspects of gravitational field and cosmology based on Finsler and Finsler-like generalized metric structures. The geometrical framework of these spaces allows further investigation of locally-anisotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-15 P. C. Stavrinos , A. Triantafyllopoulos

A concrete representation of the Clifford algebra (for any hyperbolic quadratic space) is given using what are called Suslin matrices. This explicit construction is used to analyze the corresponding Spin groups and the involution and might…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Vineeth Chintala

Various types of Lagrange and Finsler geometries and the Einstein gravity theory, and modifications, can be modelled by nonholonomic distributions on tangent bundles/ manifolds when the fundamental geometric objects are adapted to nonlinear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-26 Sergiu I. Vacaru

A continuum mechanical theory with foundations in generalized Finsler geometry describes the complex anisotropic behavior of skin. A fiber bundle approach, encompassing total spaces with assigned linear and nonlinear connections,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-09 John D. Clayton