Holonomy in the Schwarzschild-Droste geometry

Parallel transport of vectors in curved spacetimes generally results in a d eficit angle between the directions of the initial and final vectors. We ex amine such a holonomy in the Schwarzschild-Droste geometry and find a numbe r of interesting features that are not widely known. For example, parallel transport around circular orbits results in a quantized band structure of h olonomy invariance. We also examine radial holonomy and extend the analysis to spinors and to the Reissner-Nordstrom metric, where we find qualitative ly different behaviour for the extremal (Q = M) case. Our calculations prov ide a toolbox that will hopefully be useful in the investigation of quantum parallel transport in Hilbert-fibred spacetimes.