Universe (Sep 2019)

On the Mathematics of Coframe Formalism and Einstein–Cartan Theory—A Brief Review

  • Manuel Tecchiolli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/universe5100206
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 10
p. 206

Abstract

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This article is a review of what could be considered the basic mathematics of Einstein−Cartan theory. We discuss the formalism of principal bundles, principal connections, curvature forms, gauge fields, torsion form, and Bianchi identities, and eventually, we will end up with Einstein−Cartan−Sciama−Kibble field equations and conservation laws in their implicit formulation.

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