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    • CommentTimeMar 12th 2024
    • (edited Mar 12th 2024)

    added this quote to before the Idea-section:

    In the wake of the movement of ideas which followed the general theory of relativity, I was led to introduce the notion of new geometries, more general than Riemannian geometry, and playing with respect to the different Klein geometries the same role as the Riemannian geometries play with respect to Euclidean space. The vast synthesis that I realized in this way depends of course on the ideas of Klein formulated in his celebrated Erlangen programme while at the same time going far beyond it since it includes Riemannian geometry, which had formed a completely isolated branch of geometry, within the compass of a very general scheme in which the notion of group still plays a fundamental role.

    [Élie Cartan 1939, as quoted in Sharpe 1997, p. 171]

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    • CommentTimeMar 16th 2024

    added pointer to:

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    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2024

    added pointer to:

    • Erhard Scholz, E. Cartan’s attempt at bridge-building between Einstein and the Cosserats – or how translational curvature became to be known as “torsion”, The European Physics Journal H 44 (2019) 47-75 [doi:10.1140/epjh/e2018-90059-x]

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    • CommentTimeMar 20th 2024

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    • CommentTime6 hours ago
    • (edited 6 hours ago)

    as an example, I have spelled out (here) the “round S 3S^3” as a Cartan geometry

    (This example would fit into other entries, too, such as at first-order formulation of gravity. Indeed, I wrote this to sort out the sign convention for the scalar curvature in the example discussed at Freund-Rubin compactification – Details.)

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