The Riemann tensor, the metric tensor, and curvature collineations in general relativity

DOI10.1063/1.525366zbMath0491.53018WikidataQ125002709 ScholiaQ125002709MaRDI QIDQ3952759

W. D. Halford, Colin B. G. McIntosh

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.525366

zbMATH Keywords

spacetimes; Riemann tensor; curvature collineations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53B30: Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics

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Sufficiency of the Ricci equations for characterizing the Riemann tensor, Curvature collineations and the determination of the metric from the curvature in General Relativity, The significance of curvature in general relativity, Curvature and conformal collineations in presence of matter, Groups of transformations of Riemannian manifolds, Spacetimes in which the Ricci equations characterize the Riemann tensor, Symmetries and geometry in general relativity, Weyl compatible tensors, The principle of equivalence and cosmological metrics, Spacetimes admitting a vector field whose inner product with the Riemann tensor is zero, Curvature collineations in general relativity. I

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