Documentation

Physicslib4.Spacetime.IsometryTopology

Topology on the isometry group and the identity component #

This file makes the isometry group Physicslib4.Spacetime.Isometry M a topological group and carves out the identity-component subgroup — the isometries "connected to the identity" used by Axiom 5 of the curved-spacetime Haag-Kastler axioms (def:isometric-covariance-in-curved-spacetime).

Main definitions / results #

Modelling notes #

Taking the bare compact-open topology (induced from the forward map alone) does not obviously make inversion continuous (the Arens problem). The standard remedy, used here, is to induce the topology from both the map and its inverse, g ↦ (g, g⁻¹) ∈ C(M,M) × C(M,M):

This is exactly the Arens-style construction, and it discharges IsTopologicalGroup outright, so the identity-component subgroup is unconditional.

A finite-dimensional manifold is locally compact, since its model space ℝ⁴ is.

An isometry as a continuous self-map of the spacetime (its underlying diffeomorphism, which is continuous).

Equations
Instances For

    An isometry as the pair of its underlying continuous self-map and the map of its inverse. The group topology is induced from this inclusion into C(M,M) × C(M,M).

    Equations
    Instances For
      @[implicit_reducible]

      The topological-group topology on the isometry group, induced from the inclusion g ↦ (g, g⁻¹) into C(M,M) × C(M,M).

      Equations

      The forward map of a product is the composition of the forward maps.

      The isometry group acts continuously on spacetime. The action (g, x) ↦ g • x = g.toDiffeo x is jointly continuous: it factors as the evaluation (g, x) ↦ (toContinuousMap g) x, and evaluation C(M,M) × M → M is continuous since M is locally compact (Continuous.eval). This is the standard continuity companion to the topological-group structure, used by any continuity argument over the isometry group.

      The identity-component subgroup of the isometry group: the isometries connected to the identity, formalising the group used in Axiom 5 (def:isometric-covariance-in-curved-spacetime). It is the connected component of 1, a (normal) subgroup of the topological group.

      Equations
      Instances For