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A review of the geometrical equivalence of metrics in general relativity
- Source :
- General Relativity and Gravitation. 12:693-707
- Publication Year :
- 1980
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1980.
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Abstract
- We review the solution to the equivalence problem in general relativity given by Cartan and Brans and present a practically useful method to obtain a coordinate-invariant description of a geometry. The method, which can be seen as a generalized Petrov classification, automatically gives the dimensions of the isometry group and its isotropy subgroup. Finally, we illustrate the method using the Schwarzschild solution as a very simple example.
Details
- ISSN :
- 15729532 and 00017701
- Volume :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- General Relativity and Gravitation
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........63d31ae08e5ae15b3211c15a6448ef31