The harmonic mapping character of Rosen’s bimetric theory of gravity and the geometry of its harmonic mapping space

DOI10.1063/1.526875zbMath0583.53059OpenAlexW2028439907WikidataQ125738897 ScholiaQ125738897MaRDI QIDQ3706137

William R. Stoeger, Andrew P. Whitman, Ronald J. Knill

Publication date: 1985

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.526875

zbMATH Keywords

bimetric theoryKilling vectorsGaussian curvaturebackground metricDe Witt metricmetric potentialharmonic mapping space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50)

Related Items (3)

Some harmonic maps on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds ⋮ The axially symmetric non-rotating vacuum solutions of Rosen's equations ⋮ Symmetry and variational methods in higher-dimensional theories

Cites Work

• Characterizing harmonic immersions of surfaces with indefinite metric
• A Report on Harmonic Maps
• Quantum Theory of Gravity. I. The Canonical Theory

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