Multi-step Fermi normal coordinates

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/17/175018MaRDI QIDQ2854175zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eleni-Alexandra Kontou, Ken D. Olum

Publication date 17 October 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4493, https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/130422/1/1207.4493v1.pdf

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

Abstract: We generalize the concept of Fermi normal coordinates adapted to a geodesic to the case where the tangent space to the manifold at the base point is decomposed into a direct product of an arbitrary number of subspaces, so that we follow several geodesics in turn to find the point with given coordinates. We compute the connection and the metric as integrals of the Riemann tensor. In the case of one subspace (Riemann normal coordinates) or two subspaces, we recover some results previously found by Nesterov, using somewhat different techniques.

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