Thursday, 28 February 2019

Important Equations for General Relativity

Here are some important equations for General Relativity.
Babylonian equations
They are in Commentary Important Equations.pdf along with references and some notes.
Mathematics

  • Definition of \partial\mu (Carroll 1.54)
  • (Anti)symmetrisation operator (Carroll 1.79)
  • Vector as derivative (Carroll 2.16)
  • Commutator (Carroll 2.20/2.23)
  • Tensor transformation equation (Carroll 2.30)
  • Basis vectors (Physics Forums)
  • Covariant derivative / Christoffel symbol (Carroll section 3.2)
  • Torsion Tensor (C Eq 3.22)
  • The Christoffel connection Γ  (C Eq 3.27)
  • The geodesic equation (C Eq 3.44)
  • Directional covariant derivative (C Eq 3.38)
  • The parallel transport equation (C Eq 3.39, 3.40)
  • Riemann tensor (c Eq 3.112/3.113)
  • Bianchi identity (c Eq 3.140)
  • Ricci tensor and scalar, Weyl tensor (c Eq 3.144-3.147)
  • Einstein tensor and 'contravariant' derivative (c Eq 3.1452,2)
  • Killing's equation, Killing vectors (c Eq3.174)
  • Geodesic deviation equation (c Eq3.208)

Tensor tricks

  • What tensor rank?
  • Multi-dimensional Chain Rule
  • Partial derivative of components gives Kronecker delta
    • Coordinates
    • Vectors (C1.152)
    • Tensors
  • Partial derivatives commute
  • Metric is always symmetric (C section 2.5)
  • Contracting with metric lowers / raises index
  • You can lower or raise indices on a tensor equation
  • Swap indices with metric or any similar tensor
  • Inverses and determinants
    • Inverse of a matrix
    • The determinant of the inverse is reciprocal of the determinant
    • Determinant of a tensor in terms of Levi-Civita symbol (C Eq 2.66)
    • Inverse tensor
    • A relationship for the derivative of the determinant
  • Fully contracted symmetric × antisymmetric tensor vanishes
  • Symmetrising a tensor equation
  • Two formulas involving four-velocity
  • Second formula
  • The projection tensor on four-velocity (C Eq 1.21)

Physics

  • Electro Magnetic Field Tensor (C Eq 1.69)
  • Maxwell's equations (C Eq 1.96-1.98)
  • Energy Momentum tensor for a perfect fluid (C Eq 3.93 and 1.114)
  • Energy Momentum tensor for dust in SR (C Eq 1.110)
  • Energy-momentum tensor from action for matter (C Eq 4.75)
  • Energy-momentum conservation equation (C Eq 3.92 & 4.8)
  • Einstein's equation x 3 for general relativity (C Eq2.44-4.46)
  • Friedmann equations (C Eq 8.67)

More Maths

  • Differential and Integration on Web
  • Pullback / Pushforward operators (Carroll A.9, A.10)
  • Levi-Civita symbol and tensor (Carroll section 2.8)
  • p-forms (Carroll section 2.9)
  • Exterior derivative (Carroll 2.76)
  • Wedge product (Carroll 2.73)
  • Hodge star operator (Carroll 2.82)
  • Stokes's theorem (C Eq 3.35)
  • Euler-Lagrange Equation

All in Commentary Important Equations.pdf along with references and some notes.
Image from WikipediBabylonian equations.

Carroll's (1.68) where the Levi-Civita symbol is defined says "the Levi-Civita symbol is a ##(0,4)## tensor. It is NOT a tensor as he reminds us elsewhere.

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