11 Apr 2024, 11h CET. Talk by I. Agricola.
Abstract: Following the seminal work of Elie Cartan, I will summarise the concept of torsion of a metric connection and the most important properties; in particular, we will meet the three basic types of metric connections with torsion and what singles out the skew symmetric case. I will highlight the differences to the Riemannian case and the properties of the holonomy group. Lots of examples and applications will be met along the way.