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How To Make Tetrads, Charles G. Torre
How To Make Tetrads, Charles G. Torre
How to... in 10 minutes or less
This is a worksheet which demonstrates tools for creating orthonormal and null tetrads for a given spacetime.
The Kretschmann Scalar, Charles G. Torre
The Kretschmann Scalar, Charles G. Torre
How to... in 10 minutes or less
On a pseudo-Riemannian manifold with metric g, the "Kretschmann scalar" is a quadratic scalar invariant of the Riemann R tensor of g, defined by contracting all indices with g. In this worksheet we show how to calculate the Kretschmann scalar from a metric.
How To Find Killing Vectors, Charles G. Torre
How To Find Killing Vectors, Charles G. Torre
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We show how to compute the Lie algebra of Killing vector fields of a metric in Maple using the commands KillingVectors and LieAlgebraData. A Maple worksheet and a PDF version can be found below.