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- From: matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Mcinnes B T (Dr))
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Symmetries, groups, and categories
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.021936.9196@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 02:19:36 GMT
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- No, I meant the holonomy group. You made one of your usual outrageous
- statements to the effect that groups are of interest to physics because
- of symmetries. I submit that the holonomy group [generated by all
- parallel transports around closed loops] is of interest to physicists
- but has little to do with symmetry [although one can interpret it as a
- kind of symmetry group in a technical way...jeez ,maybe you are right,
- I AM being difficult] Anyway, I urge everyone to become familiar with
- holonomy groups. There's a good chapter on them in Besse' s book on
- Einstein manifolds.
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