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What's New In Differentialgeometry Release Dg2022, Ian M. Anderson, Charles G. Torre Jan 2022

What's New In Differentialgeometry Release Dg2022, Ian M. Anderson, Charles G. Torre

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This Maple worksheet demonstrates the salient new features and functionalities of the 2022 release of the DifferentialGeometry software package.


Spacetime Groups, Ian M. Anderson, Charles G. Torre Jan 2019

Spacetime Groups, Ian M. Anderson, Charles G. Torre

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A spacetime group is a connected 4-dimensional Lie group G endowed with a left invariant Lorentz metric h and such that the connected component of the isometry group of h is G itself. The Newman-Penrose formalism is used to give an algebraic classification of spacetime groups, that is, we determine a complete list of inequivalent spacetime Lie algebras, which are pairs (g,η), with g being a 4-dimensional Lie algebra and η being a Lorentzian inner product on g. A full analysis of the equivalence problem for spacetime Lie algebras is given which leads to a completely algorithmic solution to the …


How To Make Tetrads, Charles G. Torre Jan 2018

How To Make Tetrads, Charles G. Torre

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This is a worksheet which demonstrates tools for creating orthonormal and null tetrads for a given spacetime.


Introduction To The Usu Library Of Solutions To The Einstein Field Equations, Ian M. Anderson, Charles G. Torre Dec 2017

Introduction To The Usu Library Of Solutions To The Einstein Field Equations, Ian M. Anderson, Charles G. Torre

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This is a Maple worksheet providing an introduction to the USU Library of Solutions to the Einstein Field Equations. The library is part of the DifferentialGeometry software project and is a collection of symbolic data and metadata describing solutions to the Einstein equations.


Rainich-Type Conditions For Null Electrovacuum Spacetimes I, Charles G. Torre Mar 2013

Rainich-Type Conditions For Null Electrovacuum Spacetimes I, Charles G. Torre

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In this worksheet I describe local Rainich-type conditions on a spacetime geometry which are necessary and sufficient for the existence of a solution of the Einstein-Maxwell equations with a null electromagnetic field. When it exists, the electromagnetic field is easily constructed.