Thursday 2 October 2014

differential geometry - Can a metric in General Relativity, Supergravity, String Theory, etc., be asymmetric?


Why is it that all problems I encountered until now have metrics that when represented in a matrix form turn out to be symmetric? Aren't there asymmetric matrices representing some metrics?




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