2014

Properties of an affine transport equation and its holonomy

Vines, Justin, Nichols, David A.

Understand

An affine transport equation was used recently to study properties of angular momentum and gravitational-wave memory effects in general relativity.

  • In this paper, we investigate local properties of this transport equation in greater detail.
  • Associated with this transport equation is a map between the tangent spaces at two points on a curve.
  • This map consists of a homogeneous (linear) part given by the parallel transport map along the curve plus an inhomogeneous part, which is related to the development of a curve in a manifold into an affine tangent space.

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