Mathematics – Differential Geometry
Scientific paper
2007-12-10
Mathematics
Differential Geometry
New version. Proofs shortened, one section added on flat connections with 3-form torsion
Scientific paper
We study the skew-symmetric prolongation of a Lie subalgebra $\g \subseteq \mathfrak{so}(n)$, in other words the intersection $\Lambda^3 \cap (\Lambda^1 \otimes \g)$.We compute this space in full generality. Applications include uniqueness results for connections with skew-symmetric torsion and also the proof of the Euclidean version of a conjecture posed in \cite{ofarill} concerning a class of Pl\"ucker-type embeddings. We also derive a classification of the metric k-Lie algebras (or Filipov algebras), in positive signature and finite dimension. Prolongations of Lie algebras can also be used to finish the classification, started in \cite{datri}, of manifolds admitting Killing frames, or equivalently flat connections with 3-form torsion. Next we study specific properties of invariant 4-forms of a given metric representation and apply these considerations to classify the holonomy representation of metric connections with vectorial torsion, that is with torsion contained in $\Lambda^1 \subseteq \Lambda^1 \otimes \Lambda^2$.
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