Transformation to pseudo-Cartesian coordinates in locally flat pseudo-Riemannian spaces

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2006.12.001MaRDI QIDQ886333zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Joshua T. Horwood, Raymond G. Mclenaghan

Publication date 26 June 2007

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomphys.2006.12.001

zbMATH Keywords

curvilinear coordinatesseparation of variablesHamilton-Jacobi theoryflat pseudo-Riemannian spacesparallel covector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects in vector and tensor analysis (53A45) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Hamilton-Jacobi equations in mechanics (70H20)

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