This is the first of a series of articles showing how 4 dimensionally covariant analytical procedures developed in the context of General Relativity can be usefully adapted for application in a purely Newtonian framework where they provide physical insights (e.g. concerning helicity currents) that are not so easy to obtain by the traditional approach based on a 3+1 space time decomposition. Aft...

Motivated by the search for a Hamiltonian formulation of Einstein equations of gravity which depends in a minimal way on choices of coordinates, nor on a choice of gauge, we develop a multisymplectic formulation on the total space of the principal bundle of orthonormal frames on the 4-dimensional space-time. This leads quite naturally to a new theory which takes place on 10-dimensional manifold...

Reduction of a state of a quantum system to a subsystem gives partial quantum information about the true state of the total system. In connection with optimal state determination for two qubits, the question was raised about the maximum number of pairwise complementary reductions. The main result of the paper tells that the maximum number is 4, that is, if A;A; : : : ;A are pairwise complementa...

In this paper, starting from the common foundation of Connes’ noncommutative geometry ( NCG)[1, 2, 3, 4], various possible alternatives in the formulation of a theory of gravity in noncommutative spacetime are discussed in detail. The diversity in the final physical content of the theory is shown to be the consequence of the arbitrariness in each construction steps. As an alternative in the las...

Spontaneous breaking of local Lorentz symmetry occurs when a local vector or tensor field acquires a nonzero vacuum expectation value. The effects of such breaking are examined in the context of gravity theory. These include an associated spontaneous breaking of diffeomorphism symmetry and generation of massless Nambu-Goldstone modes. The possibility of a Higgs mechanism is examined as well, an...

We formulate an approach to the geometry of Riemann–Cartan spaces provided with nonholonomic distributions defined by generic off–diagonal and nonsymmetric metrics inducing effective nonlinear and affine connections. Such geometries can be modelled by moving nonholonomic frames on (pseudo) Riemannian manifolds and describe various types of nonholonomic Einstein, Eisenhart–Moffat and Finsler–Lag...

This note elaborates on Th. Voronov’s construction [V1, V2] of L∞-structures via higher derived brackets with a Maurer–Cartan element. It is shown that gauge equivalent Maurer–Cartan elements induce L∞-isomorphic structures. Applications in symplectic, Poisson and Dirac geometry are discussed.

This paper is part of the lecture given at the TH Division of CERN and devoted to the CXXV anniversary of the birthday of Elie Cartan (1869-1951). It is shown how the methods of differential geometry, due to E. Cartan, were applied to the construction of the supersymmetry transformation law and to the actions for Goldstone fermions and supergravity.

By a result of H. Cartan (cf. 5]), the homotopy of a simplicial commutative algebra is equipped with divided power operations. In this paper, we provide a general approach to the construction of Cartan operations in the context of simplicial algebras over an operad.

First three sections of this overview paper cover classical topics of deformation theory of associative algebras and necessary background material. We then analyze algebraic structures of the Hochschild cohomology and describe the relation between deformations and solutions of the corresponding Maurer-Cartan equation. In Section 6 we generalize the Maurer-Cartan equation to strongly homotopy Li...