Symmetries of Spacetimes and Riemannian Manifolds

Krishan L Duggal,Ramesh Sharma

doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-5315-1

Symmetries of Spacetimes and Riemannian Manifolds

Krishan L Duggal, Ramesh Sharma

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5315-1

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Publication Date: Jan 1, 1999

Citations: 73

Affiliation: University of Windsor, University of New Haven

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Dedication. Preface. 1. Preliminaries. 2. Semi-Riemannian Manifolds and Hypersurfaces. 3. Lie Derivatives and Symmetry Groups. 4. Spacetimes of General Relativity. 5. Killing and Affine Killing Vector Fields. 6. Homothetic and Conformal Symmetries. 7. Connection and Curvature Symmetries. 8. Symmetry Inheritance. 9. Symmetries of Some Geometric Structures. A: The Petrov Classification. Bibliography. Index.

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