R. Rankin's user avatar
R. Rankin's user avatar
R. Rankin's user avatar
R. Rankin
  • Member for 7 years, 9 months
  • Last seen this week
  • Hawaii
7 votes
1 answer
416 views

In what capacity is $S^{3}$ locally the same as $S^{2}\times S^{1}$?

6 votes
1 answer
475 views

How is $F(FM)$ related to 2-Jet bundle $F^{2} M$?

5 votes
0 answers
157 views

cobordism for every spin structure on a boundary?

4 votes
0 answers
125 views

Spinor bundle $\mathbb{S}(M)$ for connected sum $\mathbb{S}(M_1 \#M_2)$?

4 votes
0 answers
101 views

wouldn't a discretized space-time violate pontryagin duality?

4 votes
1 answer
91 views

If the derivative is written as shifts, can you relate it to the laplace/fourier tranform?

3 votes
1 answer
184 views

Is the group of translations on a spherical topology tied to the group of rotations of that sphere?

3 votes
1 answer
159 views

Number of inequivalent spin structures on $\#_{k} (S^2 \times S^1)$?

3 votes
1 answer
86 views

$SL(n,\mathbb{C})\rightarrow GL(2n,\mathbb{R})$ reduction of frame bundle

2 votes
1 answer
104 views

Are $\mathrm{Pin}(3, 1)$ and $\mathrm{GL}(2, \mathbb{C})$ isomorphic?

2 votes
1 answer
123 views

$\frac{SO(3)\times SO(2)}{SO(2)}$ = $\frac{SO(3)\times\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{Z}_{2}}{SO(2)\times\mathbb{Z}_{2}}$?

2 votes
0 answers
42 views

Help following step in spin geometry paper.

2 votes
0 answers
37 views

Is there a "simple" factoring of Costa's minimal surface piercing a compact surface?

2 votes
0 answers
49 views

Relation between G-connection and second fundamental form when embedding is in principal G-bundle

2 votes
0 answers
149 views

Schrodinger-Lichnerowicz-Weitzenböck formula for $Spin_G $ structures?

2 votes
1 answer
105 views

When can a matrix $\Lambda\in SL(4,R)$ be represented by $SL(2,C)$?

2 votes
1 answer
430 views

For a metric space, is the measure determined by the metric?

2 votes
0 answers
179 views

$GL(n,G)$ General Linear group of a group $G$?

2 votes
1 answer
218 views

Question about the diffeomorphism group of a Lie group.

2 votes
0 answers
56 views

Finding a Clifford algebra basis for a parallelization of a manifold "living in" larger space ex: $\mathbb{S}^{1}\subset\mathbb{R}^{2}$

2 votes
1 answer
405 views

Functional extrema and the Euler-Lagrange equation

2 votes
0 answers
139 views

Transformation of metric tensor under clifford algebra?

2 votes
0 answers
143 views

does a vector field and its dual 1-form over an n-sphere form the heisenberg group?

2 votes
0 answers
121 views

When (if ever) does a connection on a Lie manifold G define that groups Lie algebra?

2 votes
0 answers
92 views

Way to generalize the expression for a Taylor/Maclaurin series to periodic functions?

1 vote
0 answers
98 views

Transformation of metric tensor in clifford algebra for nonorthogonal transformations

1 vote
1 answer
168 views

Is there a way to write the variation of a functional in terms of the shift operator

1 vote
1 answer
359 views

How does a Lie algebra transform under a diffeomorphism?

1 vote
1 answer
227 views

What does $∫ρ(x)dx=∫ρ(x)ϕ(x)dx$ imply about $ϕ(x)$?

1 vote
0 answers
122 views

How do the symmetries of a Lie manifold manifest in the metric tensor of that manifold?