Computer-aided classification of the Ricci tensor in general relativity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/7/4/006zbMath0693.53032OpenAlexW1996698625MaRDI QIDQ3468266

G. C. Joly, Malcolm A. H. MacCallum

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/7/4/006

zbMATH Keywords

Ricci tensoralgebraic classificationSegre typecomputer-aided calculationsequivalence problem in general relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Local Riemannian geometry (53B20)

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