The principle of equivalence and cosmological metrics

DOI10.1063/1.2837431zbMath1153.81370OpenAlexW2049014260MaRDI QIDQ3544615

David P. Lonie, Graham S. Hall

Publication date: 8 December 2008

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2837431

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

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