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Tensor component calculation
First of all, this question may be more suited for the Math stack exchange site. If anyone finds this question irrelevant here, please transfer to the relevant site.
Recall that in terms of Weyl and ...
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On the linearized evolution equations in general relativity
The following puzzles me already for quite some time: In mathematical relativity, especially in the discussion of the Cauchy problem, one usually works in the so-called ADM-Formalism, in which one ...
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Number of divergence free symmetric two tensor in dimension 4 [duplicate]
In a $4$ dimensional (semi)-Riemannian manifold $(M^{4}, g)$, both Einstein tensor $G= \operatorname{Ric}(g)- \frac{R(g)}{2}g$ and stress-energy tensor $T$ symmetric and divergence-free. Is there any ...
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Definitions fundamental forms and their geometric Intuition
Let $(M^{n+1}, g)$ be a Lorentzian manifold (spacetime) that contains a Riemannian/spacelike hypersurface $(\Sigma ^{n},h).$ Then we can define the second fundamental form of the hypersurface in many ...
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Deriving (Gaussian) curvature bounds from bounds on the metric
I am trying to understand a bound in Christodoulou's 2008 paper on black hole formation.
The paper considers a spacelike surface $S$ diffeomorphic to a sphere, with two metrics:
the induced metric $\...
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Is there a mathematical book on general relativity that uses exclusively a coordinate free language even in practical computations?
I would also appreciate if it was as far from the physicists formalism as possible, no abstract indices ,etc. Also I don't consider using a basis or tetrads as coordinate free.
The idea is to use ...
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Some Mathematical Questions on Gravitational Waves and Numerical Relativity
Due to the recent spate of detections of gravitational waves by LIGO, my amateurish interest in the mathematics of general relativity has been revived.
The wave-forms of the detected gravitational ...
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A step in the proof on the uniqueness of mass
I am reading the survey paper "The Yamebe Problem" by Lee and Parker. In section 9, Theorem 9.6 in P.78, it was proved that the mass is well defined in the sense that $m(g)$ depends only on the metric ...
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General Relativity and Differential Geometry intuitions of Second Bianchi Identity
In General Relativity, one uses the Riemann Tensor in its coordinate form $R_{abcd}$, and proves the Second Bianchi Identity-
$R_{abcd;e} + R_{abde;c} + R_{abec;d} = 0$
It is said that ...
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Obtaining Killing fields from the tetrad
I'm reading the following article by Newman
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jmp/4/7/10.1063/1.1704018
about the generalization of the Schwarzschild metric. My question is the following: ...
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The Cauchy Problem in General Relativity: Existence of a Hausdorff Development
This is related to a problem that I posed about a year ago. I was given several references by a number of experts who were kind enough to entertain my rather arcane question. Those references were ...
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