Determination of the metric tensor from components of the Riemann tensor

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/14/9/027zbMath0469.53026OpenAlexW2011393188MaRDI QIDQ3923216

W. D. Halford, Colin B. G. McIntosh

Publication date: 1981

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/14/9/027

zbMATH Keywords

Riemann tensordetermination of metric tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50)

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