Harmonic expansions and quasi-riemannian geometry in Kaluza-Klein theories

Abstract

Since Kaluza-Klein supergravity does not contain the observed particles as elementary fields, alternative approaches in Kaluza-Klein theories without external gauge fields may be considered. We take up Weinberg's suggestion of changing the tangent space group and we find that some or all of the gauge field strengths associated with isometry group vanish unless there is torsion.