On the degrees of freedom of a semi-Riemannian metric

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/22/5/009MaRDI QIDQ4671127zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors David Soler, Josep Llosa

Publication date 23 April 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0406111

zbMATH Keywords

conformal flatnesspseudo-Riemannian metricSchild-form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: A semi-Riemannian metric in a n-manifold has n(n-1)/2 degrees of freedom, i.e. as many as the number of components of a differential 2-form. We prove that any semi-Riemannian metric can be obtained as a deformation of a constant curvature metric, this deformation being parametrized by a 2-form

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