The Energy Problem (EP) in General Relativity (GR) is analyzed in the context of GR’s axiomatic inconsistencies. EP is classified according to its local and global aspects. The local aspects of the EP include noncovariance of the energy-momentum pseudotensor (EMPT) of the gravitational field, non-uniqueness of the EMPT, asymmetry of EMPT and vanishing metric energy-momentum tensor. The global a...

We study which geometric structure can be constructed from the vierbein (frame/coframe) variables and which field models can be related to this geometry. The coframe field models, alternative to GR, are known as viable models for gravity, since they have the Schwarzschild solution. Since the local Lorentz invariance is violated, a physical interpretation of additional six degrees of freedom is ...

Connections provide a way to compare local quantities defined at different points of a geometric space. This thesis develops a discrete theory of connections that naturally leads to practical, efficient numerical algorithms for geometry processing. Our formulation is motivated by real-world applications where meshes may be noisy or coarsely discretized. Further, because our discrete framework c...

Given an SO(3)-bundle with connection, the associated two-sphere bundle carries a natural closed 2-form. Asking that this be symplectic gives a curvature inequality first considered by Reznikov [34]. We study this inequality in the case when the base has dimension four, with three main aims. Firstly, we use this approach to construct symplectic six-manifolds with c1 = 0 which are never Kähler; ...

Let (M, I) be an almost complex 6-manifold. The obstruction to integrability of almost complex structure (socalled Nijenhuis tensor) N : Λ0,1(M)−→ Λ(M) maps a 3-dimensional bundle to a 3-dimensional one. We say that Nijenhuis tensor is non-degenerate if it is an isomorphism. An almost complex manifold (M, I) is called nearly Kähler if it admits a Hermitian form ω such that ∇(ω) is totally antis...

It is proposed how to impose a general type of “noncommutativity” within classical mechanics from first principles. Formulation is performed in completely alternative way, i.e. without any resort to fuzzy and/or star product philosophy, which are extensively applied within noncommutative quantum theories. Newton–Lagrange noncommutative equations of motion are formulated and their properties are...

We consider a modified form of gravity, which has an extra term quadratic in the Riemann tensor. This term mimics a Yang-Mills theory. The other defining characteristic of this gravity is having the affine connection independent of the metric. (The metricity of the metric is rejected, too, since it implies a Levi-Civita connection.) It is then shown that, in the low density limit, this modified...