Estruturas não-riemannianas e a imersão do espaço-tempo em dimensões superiores

We consider the geometry of affine connections and take, as particular examples, Weyl and Riemann-Cartan geometies. In a modern geometrical approach, we take up the problem of local embedding of manifolds in Weyl spaces and in spaces endowed with semi-symmetric torsion. We then obtain the extrinsic...

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Autor: Silva, Lucio Fábio Pereira da
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB)
Repositorio:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ufpb.br:tede/5732
Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/5732
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Geometria de Weyl
Geometria de Riemann-cartan
Weyl Geometry
Riemann-Cartan Geometry
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Sumario:We consider the geometry of affine connections and take, as particular examples, Weyl and Riemann-Cartan geometies. In a modern geometrical approach, we take up the problem of local embedding of manifolds in Weyl spaces and in spaces endowed with semi-symmetric torsion. We then obtain the extrinsic curvature, Weingarten operator and Gauss-Codazzi equations in the mentioned non-riemannian spaces. We investigate some important properties of a Weyl structure in the case of a warped product and carry out an analysis of the geodesics in a foliation de…ned in such a space. We consider the particular case when the embedding space is a warped product manifold and has a Riemann-Cartan geometry. As an application, we show that the torsion …eld of de bulk may provide a mechanism of geometrical con…nement. In this way, we exhibit a classical analogue of the quantum con…nement induced by scalar …elds.