Normal coordinates along a geodesic

DOI10.1007/BF00760057MaRDI QIDQ789010zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors I. B. Khriplovich, A. D. Dolgov

Publication date 1983

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00760057

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicnormal coordinates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local Riemannian geometry (53B20) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) General relativity (83C99)

Review text

In the authors' nomenclature normal coordinates at a point p are those in which the first order derivatives of the metric tensor \(g_{\mu \nu}\) at this point p vanish and the higher derivatives of \(g_{\mu \nu}\) are expressed by the curvature tensor \(R_{\alpha \beta \gamma \delta}\) and its derivatives. It is possible to extend the normal coordinates along an arbitrary curve \(\gamma\), a problem that \textit{F. K. Manasse} and \textit{C. W. Misner} treated in a previous paper [J. Math. Phys. 4, 735-745 (1963; Zbl 0118.229)] under some appropriate conditions. The authors of the article under review generalize the above-mentioned results. Among other things they obtain the expression of \(g_{\mu \nu}\) as powers of the distance normal to \(\gamma\), up to the quartic terms, where \(\gamma\) is an arbitrary geodesic.

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