The number of functionally independent invariants of a pseudo-Riemannian metric

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/27/23/028MaRDI QIDQ4874856zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors A. Valdés Morales, Jaime Muñoz Masqué

Publication date 11 June 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9411011

zbMATH Keywords

densityfirst integralinvolutive distributionscalar invariantslocal flowgeneric pseudo-Riemannian metricscalar integral

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17)

Abstract: The number of functionally independent scalar invariants of arbitrary order of a generic pseudo--Riemannian metric on an $n$--dimensional manifold is determined.

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• On the structure of the moduli of jets of \(G\)-structures with a linear connection.
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• Differential invariants and symmetry: Riemannian metrics and beyond
• Moduli spaces for jets of Riemannian metrics at a point
• Killing vector fields of generic semi-Riemannian metrics
• Homogeneous algebraic distributions
• Invariants for the Lagrangian equivalence problem

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