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 #
TopologicalSpace (Isometry M): the topology induced from the inclusiong ↦ (g, g⁻¹)intoC(M, M) × C(M, M)(the standard topological-group topology on a transformation group).IsTopologicalGroup (Isometry M).Physicslib4.Spacetime.Isometry.identityComponent: the identity-component subgroupSubgroup.connectedComponentOfOne (Isometry M).
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):
- Inversion
g ↦ g⁻¹corresponds to swapping the two coordinates, hence is continuous by construction. - Multiplication is continuous because a finite-dimensional manifold
Mis locally compact (ChartedSpace.locallyCompactSpace), so compositionC(M,M) × C(M,M) → C(M,M)is continuous (ContinuousMap.continuous_comp').
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
- g.toContinuousMap = { toFun := ⇑g.toDiffeo, continuous_toFun := ⋯ }
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
The topological-group topology on the isometry group, induced from the
inclusion g ↦ (g, g⁻¹) into C(M,M) × C(M,M).
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.