Torsion contractions of a left-parallel Lie-group connection

ID: torsion-contractions-of-a-left-parallel-lie-group-connection

Declare a global frame of left-invariant vector fields parallel on a semisimple Lie group. This affine connection is flat and preserves a left-invariant metric tensor because its frame components are constant. If , its torsion tensor is . For fixed , the matrix with entries is . Its trace vanishes because a semisimple Lie algebra is perfect and adjoints of brackets are commutators. The trace of the product for is the Killing form , proving both contractions. This flat metric connection differs from the curved torsion-free Levi-Civita connection of the Killing metric.

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