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- About the symmetries of round 3-sphere as subspace of the ambient 4d euclidean space
As follow up of this thread in Special and General Relativity subforum, I'd like to better investigate the following topic.
Consider the 4d euclidean space in which there are 10 ##\mathbb R##-linear independent KVFs. Their span at each point is 4 dimensional (i.e. at any point they span the entire tangent space). Now take an hypersurface of dimension 3, for instance a round 3-sphere about the origin (0,0,0,0).
Since it is a 3 dimensional restriction of the "ambient" 4d euclidean space, the maximum number of symmetries that, let me say, it may "support" is 3*4/2 = 6. Therefore, from the full set of 10 "ambient symmetries", only up to 6 of them can apply to it.
In the case of round 3-sphere, which subset of the 10 KVFs ambient symmetries actually apply to it ? The round 3-sphere should be a maximally symmetric space, therefore I believe 6 of them should apply. However, the 4 ambient translational KVFs do not apply since they basically "exit" from the 3-sphere itself as submanifold.
What about the other 6 KVFs of the ambient 4d euclidean space ?
Consider the 4d euclidean space in which there are 10 ##\mathbb R##-linear independent KVFs. Their span at each point is 4 dimensional (i.e. at any point they span the entire tangent space). Now take an hypersurface of dimension 3, for instance a round 3-sphere about the origin (0,0,0,0).
Since it is a 3 dimensional restriction of the "ambient" 4d euclidean space, the maximum number of symmetries that, let me say, it may "support" is 3*4/2 = 6. Therefore, from the full set of 10 "ambient symmetries", only up to 6 of them can apply to it.
In the case of round 3-sphere, which subset of the 10 KVFs ambient symmetries actually apply to it ? The round 3-sphere should be a maximally symmetric space, therefore I believe 6 of them should apply. However, the 4 ambient translational KVFs do not apply since they basically "exit" from the 3-sphere itself as submanifold.
What about the other 6 KVFs of the ambient 4d euclidean space ?
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