In general relativity, a frame field (also called a tetrad or vierbein) is a set of four pointwise-orthonormal vector fields, one timelike and three spacelike...

is linearly independent. Frame fields in general relativity are four-dimensional frames, or vierbeins, in German. In each of these examples, the collection...

Reference Frame In fluid mechanics, Lagrangian and Eulerian specification of the flow field Other frames Frame fields in general relativity Moving frame in mathematics...

respect to the bilinear form gP. Frame (linear algebra) Frame bundle k-frame Moving frame Frame fields in general relativity Lee, John (2013), Introduction...

tensor fields defined on a Lorentzian manifold representing spacetime. This article is a general description of the mathematics of general relativity. Note:...

fields. Special relativity provides the transformation rules for how an electromagnetic field in one inertial frame appears in another inertial frame...

concepts of general relativity can be outlined outside the relativistic domain. In particular, the idea that mass–energy generates curvature in space and...

General relativity is a theory of gravitation developed by Albert Einstein between 1907 and 1915. The theory of general relativity says that the observed...

In general relativity, a geodesic generalizes the notion of a "straight line" to curved spacetime. Importantly, the world line of a particle free from...

The theory of relativity usually encompasses two interrelated physics theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity, proposed and...

Frame-dragging is an effect on spacetime, predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, that is due to non-static stationary distributions...

Tests of general relativity serve to establish observational evidence for the theory of general relativity. The first three tests, proposed by Albert...

In classical physics and special relativity, an inertial frame of reference (also called an inertial space or a Galilean reference frame) is a frame of...

General relativity, also known as the general theory of relativity, and as Einstein's theory of gravity, is the geometric theory of gravitation published...

In the general theory of relativity, the Einstein field equations (EFE; also known as Einstein's equations) relate the geometry of spacetime to the distribution...

Albert Einstein's discovery of the gravitational field equations of general relativity and David Hilbert's almost simultaneous derivation of the theory...

in the framework of special relativity, the Maxwell equations have the same form in all inertial frames of reference. In the framework of general relativity...

frame. This possibility was raised by mathematician Henri Poincaré in 1900, and thereafter became a central idea in the special theory of relativity....

modeled in finer detail, using the general principle of relativity, the concept of a frame-dependent gravitational field becomes less realistic. In these...

to general relativity are physical theories that attempt to describe the phenomenon of gravitation in competition with Einstein's theory of general relativity...

In the theory of general relativity, linearized gravity is the application of perturbation theory to the metric tensor that describes the geometry of...

used in the context of special relativity to describe the hyperbolic acceleration of a uniformly accelerating reference frame in flat spacetime. In relativistic...

(and weight in a gravitational field) of any system containing them. The concept is generalized in mass in general relativity. The term mass in special relativity...

Einstein derived the theory of special relativity in 1905, from principles now called the postulates of special relativity. Einstein's formulation is said[by...

In Einstein's theory of general relativity, the Schwarzschild metric (also known as the Schwarzschild solution) is an exact solution to the Einstein field...

proper reference frame in the theory of relativity is a particular form of accelerated reference frame, that is, a reference frame in which an accelerated...

by general relativity, which describes the dynamics of spacetime, one should not expect it to hold in less fundamental theories. For matter fields taken...

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (German: Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie) is a popular science book by Albert...

according to special relativity. In his paper, he also introduced fields with imaginary mass (now also referred to as tachyons) in an attempt to understand...

General relativity is a theory of gravitation that was developed by Albert Einstein between 1907 and 1915, with contributions by many others after 1915...