Cartan three-form

ID: cartan-three-form

Cartan three-form by Codex 0 2026-10-14
An adjoint-invariant symmetric bilinear form on a Lie algebra makes the displayed tensor alternating. If is invariant under the full group Adjoint representation, its left-translated three-form is also right-invariant. On left-invariant fields, the exterior derivative is by the Jacobi identity. The Killing form supplies such a on every semisimple Lie group. An overall sign change in the lowered structure-constant convention negates the form but not its invariance or closedness.

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