Smooth families of nondegenerate metrics #
Let P be a parameter manifold. A smooth family of nondegenerate metrics on M parametrized by
P assigns to each (p, x) : P × M a symmetric nondegenerate bilinear form on T_x M, smoothly
in (p, x) jointly. This file realizes such a family as a native smooth section over P × M of
the pullback, along the projection P × M → M, of the tangent bilinear-form bundle of M.
Freezing the parameter gives a smooth nondegenerate metric on M for every p : P. Every single
metric is a constant family, and a family can be restricted along a smooth map of parameter
manifolds, for example along a smooth curve t ↦ p t. The signature of the frozen metrics is
locally constant jointly in the parameter and the point, so it is fixed on each connected
component of P × M.
These families are the carrier for the parameter dependence of the Levi-Civita connection of a varying, possibly indefinite, metric and for its first variation.
Main definitions and results #
TauCeti.Manifold.ContMDiffNondegenerateMetricFamily: a smooth family of symmetric nondegenerate tangent bilinear forms onM, parametrized byP.TauCeti.Manifold.ContMDiffNondegenerateMetricFamily.contMDiff: joint smoothness of the family as a map into the tangent bilinear-form bundle ofM.TauCeti.Manifold.ContMDiffNondegenerateMetricFamily.ofContMDiff: the converse construction.TauCeti.Manifold.ContMDiffNondegenerateMetricFamily.metric: the metric at a fixed parameter.TauCeti.Manifold.ContMDiffNondegenerateMetricFamily.constandTauCeti.Manifold.ContMDiffNondegenerateMetricFamily.comp: constant families and restriction along a smooth parameter map.TauCeti.Manifold.ContMDiffNondegenerateMetricFamily.contMDiffAt_comp: a family restricted along aC^nparameter map is jointlyC^n.TauCeti.Manifold.ContMDiffNondegenerateMetricFamily.isLocallyConstant_signature_metric: the signature is locally constant onP × M.
References #
- B. O'Neill, Semi-Riemannian Geometry, Academic Press, 1983, Chapter 3.
A smooth family, parametrized by P, of symmetric nondegenerate real bilinear forms on the
tangent bundle of M.
The family is a native smooth section over P × M of the pullback of the tangent
bilinear-form bundle of M along the projection P × M → M; its value at (p, x) is a bilinear
form on T_x M. As for a single metric, no positivity or signature is imposed.
- toContMDiffSection : ContMDiffSection (IP.prod I) (E →L[ℝ] E →L[ℝ] ℝ) (↑⊤) (⇑ContMDiffMap.snd *ᵖ fun (x : M) => TangentSpace I x →L[ℝ] TangentSpace I x →L[ℝ] ℝ)
The smooth section of the pulled-back bundle of continuous bilinear forms.
- symm (q : P × M) : (ContinuousLinearMap.toBilinForm (self.toContMDiffSection q)).IsSymm
The bilinear form at every parameter and point is symmetric.
- nondegenerate (q : P × M) : (ContinuousLinearMap.toBilinForm (self.toContMDiffSection q)).Nondegenerate
The bilinear form at every parameter and point is nondegenerate.
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The bilinear form of a smooth nondegenerate metric family at a parameter and a point.
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The underlying smooth section of a smooth nondegenerate metric family evaluates as the family.
Evaluation of a smooth nondegenerate metric family is symmetric in its tangent arguments.
Smooth nondegenerate metric families are equal when all their fibrewise pairings agree.
A smooth nondegenerate metric family is jointly smooth in the parameter and the point, as a
map into the tangent bilinear-form bundle of M.
A jointly smooth field of symmetric nondegenerate tangent bilinear forms on M,
parametrized by P, as a smooth nondegenerate metric family.
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The family built from a jointly smooth field of forms evaluates to that field.
The smooth nondegenerate metric on M obtained by freezing the parameter at p.
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The metric at a fixed parameter evaluates as the family.
A smooth nondegenerate metric family is determined by its metrics at fixed parameters.
The constant family with value a smooth nondegenerate metric.
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The constant family takes the value of its metric at every parameter.
Freezing the parameter of a constant family recovers its metric.
The restriction of a smooth nondegenerate metric family along a smooth map of parameter
manifolds c : P' → P; its value at (p', x) is the value of the family at (c p', x).
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The restriction along a parameter map evaluates the family at the image parameter.
Restricted along a parameter map c which is C^n at p', for n ≤ ∞, a smooth
nondegenerate metric family is jointly C^n at (p', x), as a map into the tangent
bilinear-form bundle of M.
Freezing the parameter of a restricted family freezes the original family at the image parameter.
Restricting a family along the identity parameter map gives the family back.
Restricting a family along two parameter maps in turn is restricting along their composite.
Restricting a constant family along a parameter map gives the constant family.
Cache the canonical normed additive group while elaborating bilinear bundle coordinates.
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Cache the canonical real normed space while elaborating bilinear bundle coordinates.
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The coordinate metrics of a smooth metric family are jointly smooth in parameter and base point on the base set of the chosen tangent trivialization.
In a base chart, the coordinate metrics of a smooth family are jointly smooth at every parameter and every interior point of the chart target.
The signature of the metrics of a smooth nondegenerate family is locally constant jointly in the parameter and the point.
A smooth nondegenerate metric family has one fixed signature on each connected component of
P × M.
Over a preconnected parameter manifold and a preconnected manifold, a smooth nondegenerate metric family has one fixed signature.