Singular teleparallelism

Abstract

It is shown that the geometry of parallelizable manifolds can be extended to non-parallelizable ones by extending the connection that a global frame field would define on a parallelizable manifold to a connection that a singular frame field would define on a non-parallelizable one. The resulting connection would typically have non-vanishing curvature in the neighborhood of the singular points of the frame field. The example of a 2-sphere is discussed as a motivating example and later extended to more general suspensions of parallelizable manifolds.