Timeline for The Einstein minus convention, lost
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| Mar 18, 2021 at 20:56 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 18, 2021 at 7:25 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | Added a paragraph on the "why". On a separate note: the summation convention is a convention of mathematical notation, its use is not limited to GR; the minus sign in the Christoffel symbol is a matter of physical interpretation limited to the gravitational context (and the interpretation turned out to be mistaken). | |
| Mar 18, 2021 at 7:24 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 17, 2021 at 23:59 | comment | added | Martin Gisser | Yes. And he didn't like to carry the minus around at his canonical covariant derivative. My question in history of mathematics is: Why isn't this an Einstein convention, just like the summation convention? | |
| Mar 17, 2021 at 22:09 | history | answered | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |