We construct various limits of JT gravity, including Newton-Cartan and Carrollian versions dilaton gravity in two dimensions as well a theory on the three-dimensional light cone. In BF formulation our boundary conditions relate connection with scalar, yielding action particle group manifold or some Hamiltonian reduction thereof. After recovering Schwarzian for JT, we show that AdS-Carroll yield...

Külshammer, Olsson and Robinson conjectured that a certain set of numbers determined the invariant factors of the `-Cartan matrix for Sn (equivalently, the invariant factors of the Cartan matrix for the Iwahori-Hecke algebra Hn(q), where q is a primitive `th root of unity). We call these invariant factors Cartan invariants. In a previous paper, the second author calculated these Cartan invarian...

We derive the fixed-$\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Lambda}}$ and unimodular propagators using path integral formalism as applied to Einstein-Cartan action. The simplicity of action (which is linear in lapse function) allows for an exact integration starting from function enforcement Hamiltonian constraint, leading a product Chern-Simons states if connection fixed at endpoints. No saddle point approximat...

A rotating universe represented by the Gödel metric in spacetimes with Cartan torsion is investigated where the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) is computed from the Gödel rotation of the universe and the spin density of the spinning fluid in EinsteinCartan gravity.The autoparallel equation in Riemann-Cartan spacetime is shown to lead to the evolution equation of the cosmological pe...

We survey the geometry of Lagrange and Finsler spaces and discuss the issues related to the definition of curvature of nonholonomic manifolds enabled with nonlinear connection structure. It is proved that any commutative Riemannian geometry (in general, any Riemann– Cartan space) defined by a generic off–diagonal metric structure (with an additional affine connection possessing nontrivial torsi...

We propose a new framework for constructing geometric and physical models on nonholonomic manifolds provided both with Clifford – Lie algebroid symmetry and nonlinear connection structure. Explicit parametrizations of generic off–diagonal metrics and linear and nonlinear connections define different types of Finsler, Lagrange and/or Riemann–Cartan spaces. A generalization to spinor fields and D...

In this short note we study flat metric connections with antisymmetric torsion T 6= 0. The result has been originally discovered by Cartan/Schouten in 1926 and we provide a new proof not depending on the classification of symmetric spaces. Any space of that type splits and the irreducible factors are compact simple Lie group or a special connection on S. The latter case is interesting from the ...

A limiting diagram for the Segre classification of the energy-momentum tensor is obtained and discussed in connection with a Penrose specialization diagram for the Segre types. A generalization of the coordinate-free approach to limits of Paiva et al. to include non-vacuum space-times is made. Geroch’s work on limits of space-times is also extended. The same argument also justifies part of the ...

The aim of this paper and its sequel is to introduce and classify the holonomy algebras of the projective Tractor connection. After a brief historical background, this paper presents and analyses the projective Cartan and Tractor connections, the various structures they can preserve, and their geometric interpretations. Preserved subbundles of the Tractor bundle generate foliations with Ricci-f...

We derive and discus the equations of motion for spinless matter: relativistic spinless scalar fields, particles and fluids in the recently proposed by A. Saa model of gravity with covariantly constant volume with respect to the transposed connection in Einstein-Cartan spaces. A new interpretation of this theory as a theory with variable Plank ”constant” is suggested. We show that the consisten...