On determining the isometry group of a Riemannian space

DOI10.1007/BF00761458zbMath0486.53013OpenAlexW139284056WikidataQ115394895 ScholiaQ115394895MaRDI QIDQ1164853

Anders Karlhede, Malcolm A. H. MacCallum

Publication date: 1982

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00761458

zbMATH Keywords

group of motionsinteractive computer system for algebraic manipulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local Riemannian geometry (53B20) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to differential geometry (53-04)

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