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

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/27/23/028zbMATH Open0851.53005arXivdg-ga/9411011OpenAlexW1995753748WikidataQ115293576 ScholiaQ115293576MaRDI QIDQ4874856FDOQ4874856

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)

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

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)

Cited In (8)

• Invariants for the Lagrangian equivalence problem
• Homogeneous algebraic distributions
• Moduli spaces for jets of Riemannian metrics at a point
• On the structure of the moduli of jets of \(G\)-structures with a linear connection.
• Killing vector fields of generic semi-Riemannian metrics
• Geometric interpretation of the mixed invariants of the Riemann spinor
• First-order equivalent to Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian
• Differential invariants and symmetry: Riemannian metrics and beyond

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