• In general relativity, the Weyl metrics (named after the German-American mathematician Hermann Weyl) are a class of static and axisymmetric solutions to...
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  • In differential geometry, the Weyl curvature tensor, named after Hermann Weyl, is a measure of the curvature of spacetime or, more generally, a pseudo-Riemannian...
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  • body is given by the Kerr–Newman metric. The metric was discovered between 1916 and 1921 by Hans Reissner, Hermann Weyl, Gunnar Nordström and George Barker...
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    Spinor (redirect from Majorana-Weyl spinor)
    metric signature, this realization of spinors as column vectors may be irreducible or it may decompose into a pair of so-called "half-spin" or Weyl representations...
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  • theoretical physics, the Weyl transformation, named after German mathematician Hermann Weyl, is a local rescaling of the metric tensor: g a b → e − 2 ω...
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    Weyl equation is a relativistic wave equation for describing massless spin-1/2 particles which have an inherent handedness, or chirality, called Weyl...
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  • mature method to distort the standard Schwarzschild metric is restricted to the framework of Weyl metrics. All static axisymmetric solutions of the Einstein–Maxwell...
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  • Weyl multipole moments discussed below. Kerr, Roy P. (1963). "Gravitational Field of a Spinning Mass as an Example of Algebraically Special Metrics"...
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  • MathWorld. Weisstein, Eric W. "Weyl's Criterion". MathWorld. Weyl's Criterion at PlanetMath. Lecture notes by Charles Walkden with proof of Weyl's Criterion...
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  • Einstein and Hermann Weyl. Specifically, if M {\displaystyle M} is a manifold with a conformal metric [ g ] {\displaystyle [g]} , then a Weyl connection is by...
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  • A conformal anomaly, scale anomaly, trace anomaly or Weyl anomaly is an anomaly, i.e. a quantum phenomenon that breaks the conformal symmetry of the classical...
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    metrics describe the spacetime geometry of a wormhole and serve as theoretical models for time travel. An example of a (traversable) wormhole metric is...
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  • any flat metric is Ricci-flat. The study of flat metrics is usually considered as a topic unto itself. As such, the study of Ricci-flat metrics is only...
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  • In differential geometry, a Weyl connection (also called a Weyl structure) is a generalization of the Levi-Civita connection that makes sense on a conformal...
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  • families of solutions which are asymptotically flat, such as the AF Weyl metrics and their rotating generalizations, the AF Ernst vacuums (the family...
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  • coordinates, Lemaître–Tolman metric, Peres metric, Rindler coordinates, Weyl–Lewis–Papapetrou coordinates, Gödel metric. Some of them are without the...
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  • the signature of the metric is (1, n−1) (equivalently, (n−1, 1); see Sign convention). Such metrics are called Lorentzian metrics. They are named after...
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  • Weyl group Weyl integral Weyl integration formula Weyl law Weyl metrics Weyl module Weyl notation Weyl quantization Weyl relations Weyl scalar Weyl semimetal...
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  • general relativity Stress–energy tensor Metric tensor (general relativity) Relativistic angular momentum Weyl metrics Weyl, Hermann (1917). "Zur Gravitationstheorie"...
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  • nonvanishing Weyl-NP scalar. As a natural and simplest extension of the Schwazschild metric, the Vaidya metric still has a lot in common with it: Both metrics are...
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  • Conformastatic disk-haloes in Einstein-Maxwell gravity. Physical Review D 87 (2013): 044010. arXiv:1211.4941[gr-qc] Weyl metrics Reissner–Nordström metric...
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  • Gamma matrices (redirect from Weyl basis)
    &-1&~~0&~~0\\1&~~0&~~0&~~0\end{pmatrix}}~.} Another common choice is the Weyl or chiral basis, in which γ k {\displaystyle \gamma ^{k}} remains the same...
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  • Coxeter groups include the symmetry groups of regular polytopes, and the Weyl groups of simple Lie algebras. Examples of infinite Coxeter groups include...
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    the entire manifold, and many special metrics such as constant scalar curvature metrics and Kähler–Einstein metrics are constructed intrinsically using...
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    The Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric (FLRW; /ˈfriːdmən ləˈmɛtrə ... /) is a metric that describes a homogeneous, isotropic, expanding (or otherwise...
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  • In relativistic cosmology, Weyl's postulate stipulates that in the Friedmann model of the universe (a fluid cosmological model), the wordlines of fluid...
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  • tensor, the Ricci tensor, and the scalar curvature, the Weyl tensor of a pseudo-Riemannian metric g of dimension n is given by W i j k l = R i j k l − R...
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  • such metrics on K3, 57 parameters of which give rise to Einstein metrics which are not related by isometries or rescalings. Kähler–Einstein metrics exist...
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  • equivalence class of such metrics is known as a conformal metric or conformal class. Thus, a conformal metric may be regarded as a metric that is only defined...
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  • metric to be conformally flat; instead, the corresponding necessary and sufficient condition in these higher dimensions is the vanishing of the Weyl tensor...
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