The Geometry of Dilation- and Shear-Deformed Spaces

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Main Author: Liu, Gordon
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Published: 2026
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contents This paper develops a deformation-field geometry for spaces whose local frames may undergo internal stretching, compression, and shear. Ordinary Riemannian geometry takes an intrinsic metric geometry \((M,g)\) as the given datum and uses its Levi-Civita comparison. The present framework retains additional data: a fixed reference metric geometry and a deformation field \(P\) representing \(g\) by \(g=P^T\bar gP\). This makes the dilation-shear structure relative to the fixed reference visible. The deformation field yields a dilation-shear compensation \(Λ=P^{-1}\bar\nabla P\), and the natural total comparison connection is \(Γ=\mathringΓ+Λ\), where \(\mathringΓ\) is the Levi-Civita connection of the represented metric. Curvature, torsion, and nonmetricity of \(Γ\) are then determined by \(\mathringΓ\) and \(Λ\), rather than postulated as independent affine data. Examples involving one-dimensional stretching, conformal deformation, anisotropic dilation, shear, and spherical geometries distinguish metric curvature, embedded realization, and internal deformation non-uniformity.
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spellingShingle The Geometry of Dilation- and Shear-Deformed Spaces
Liu, Gordon
General Mathematics
53B20, 53B05, 53B15
This paper develops a deformation-field geometry for spaces whose local frames may undergo internal stretching, compression, and shear. Ordinary Riemannian geometry takes an intrinsic metric geometry \((M,g)\) as the given datum and uses its Levi-Civita comparison. The present framework retains additional data: a fixed reference metric geometry and a deformation field \(P\) representing \(g\) by \(g=P^T\bar gP\). This makes the dilation-shear structure relative to the fixed reference visible. The deformation field yields a dilation-shear compensation \(Λ=P^{-1}\bar\nabla P\), and the natural total comparison connection is \(Γ=\mathringΓ+Λ\), where \(\mathringΓ\) is the Levi-Civita connection of the represented metric. Curvature, torsion, and nonmetricity of \(Γ\) are then determined by \(\mathringΓ\) and \(Λ\), rather than postulated as independent affine data. Examples involving one-dimensional stretching, conformal deformation, anisotropic dilation, shear, and spherical geometries distinguish metric curvature, embedded realization, and internal deformation non-uniformity.
title The Geometry of Dilation- and Shear-Deformed Spaces
topic General Mathematics
53B20, 53B05, 53B15
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25935