PIRSA:11050024

Vectors and affine forms, straight and twisted

Porta Mana, P. (2011). Vectors and affine forms, straight and twisted. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/11050024

Porta Mana, PierGianLuca. Vectors and affine forms, straight and twisted. Perimeter Institute, May. 24, 2011, https://pirsa.org/11050024 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:11050024,
            doi = {10.48660/11050024},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/11050024},
            author = {Porta Mana, PierGianLuca},
            keywords = {Quantum Foundations},
            language = {en},
            title = {Vectors and affine forms, straight and twisted},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2011},
            month = {may},
            note = {PIRSA:11050024 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

PierGianLuca Porta Mana

Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

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Abstract
This is a geometric tutorial about straight and twisted vectors and forms (ie, de Rham currents) leading to some wild thoughts about the EM field as a *thing*, ie with properties similar to a piece of matter; and to some even wilder thoughts about a metric-free GR.