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E. Cartan's attempt at bridge-building between Einstein and the Cosserats -- or how translational curvature became to be known as {\em torsion}. (arXiv:1810.03872v1 [math.HO])
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\'Elie Cartan's "g\'en\'eralisation de la notion de courbure" (1922) arose
from a creative evaluation of the geometrical structures underlying both,
Einstein's theory of gravity and the Cosserat brothers generalized theory of
elasticity. In both theories groups operating in the infinitesimal played a
crucial role. To judge from his publications in 1922--24, Cartan developed his
concept of generalized spaces with the dual context of general relativity and
non-standard elasticity in mind. In this context it seemed natural to express
the translational curvature of his new spaces by a rotational quantity (via a
kind of Grassmann dualization). So Cartan called his translational curvature
"torsion" and coupled it to a hypothetical rotational momentum of matter
several years before spin was encountered in quantum mechanics. 查看全文>>