Conical singularities and torsion

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/11/5/019zbMath0798.53081OpenAlexW2032840886MaRDI QIDQ4296230

K. Paul Tod

Publication date: 1 November 1994

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/11/5/019

zbMATH Keywords

delta distributionBianchi identityconnectionconical singularitiestorsion tensorflat spacetimeaffine holonomylinear holonomyRiemannian tensorboostaffine translationquasi-local singularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15)

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