Generalized pseudo-Riemannian geometry

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-02-03058-1zbMath1012.46049arXivmath/0107057MaRDI QIDQ3151226

Michael Kunzinger, Roland Steinbauer

Publication date: 7 October 2002

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0107057

zbMATH Keywords

general relativity; Colombeau algebras; algebras of generalized functions; generalized tensor fields; generalized metric; (generalized) pseudo-Riemannian geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

46F10: Operations with distributions and generalized functions

46T30: Distributions and generalized functions on nonlinear spaces

83C05: Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

46F30: Generalized functions for nonlinear analysis (Rosinger, Colombeau, nonstandard, etc.)

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