Torsion at Different Scales: From Materials to the Universe
2023/10/19 by Nick E. Mavromatos, Pablo Pais, Alfredo Iorio · 1 voice
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark matter #Medicine #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Particle physics #Physics #String theory #Supergravity #Supersymmetry #Theoretical physics #Torsion (gastropod) #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.3390/universe9120516
arxiv published 2023/10/19 · openalex publication_date 2023/12/14 · arxiv updated 2023/12/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Abstract
The concept of torsion in geometry, although known for a long time, has not gained considerable attention from the physics community until relatively recently, due to its diverse and potentially important applications to a plethora of contexts of physical interest. These range from novel materials, such as graphene and graphene-like materials, to advanced theoretical ideas, such as string theory and supersymmetry/supergravity, and applications thereof in terms of understanding the dark sector of our Universe. This work reviews such applications of torsion at different physical scales.
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