Einstein's Equations in Vacuum Spacetimes with Two Spacelinke Killing Vectors Using Affine Projection Tensor Geometry

Einstein's equations in vacuum spacetimes with two spacelike killing vectors are explored using affine projection tensor geometry. By doing a semi-conformal transformation on the metric, a new "fiducial" geometry is constructed using a projection tensor fields. This fiducial geometry provides coordinate independent information about the underlying structure of the spacetime without the use of an explicit form of the metric tensor.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Physics

Year dc:date.available

1994

Author dc:creator

• Lawrence, Miles D.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Robert H. Gowdy

• vacuum
• cylindrical spacetime
• general relativity
• curvature tensor
• Einstein
• empty universe
• restricted derivatives
• Physical Sciences and Mathematics
• Physics

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• © The Author

Identifier

https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1473

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarscompass.vcu.edu:etd-2472