In differential geometry, the torsion tensor is a tensor that is associated to any affine connection. The torsion tensor is a bilinear map of two input...
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The contorsion tensor (or contortion tensor) in differential geometry is the difference between a connection with and without torsion in it. It commonly...
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antisymmetric part (torsion tensor). The action used is the same as the Palatini action, except that the constraint on the torsion is removed. This results...
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the stress tensor of a solid body under torsion stress can be described as torsion fields, although such usage is rare. The torsion tensor is a quantity...
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stress-energy tensor The stress–energy tensor, sometimes called the stress–energy–momentum tensor or the energy–momentum tensor, is a tensor physical quantity...
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Ricci calculus (redirect from Tensor calculus)
notation and manipulation for tensors and tensor fields on a differentiable manifold, with or without a metric tensor or connection. It is also the modern...
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of tensor theory. For expositions of tensor theory from different points of view, see: Tensor Tensor (intrinsic definition) Application of tensor theory...
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Ricci curvature (redirect from Ricci curvature tensor)
relationship between the Ricci tensor and the matter content of the universe. Like the metric tensor, the Ricci tensor assigns to each tangent space of...
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module over an integral domain Torsion-free affine connection, an affine connection whose torsion tensor vanishes Torsion-free metric connection or Levi-Civita...
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metric field on M consists of a metric tensor at each point p of M that varies smoothly with p. A metric tensor g is positive-definite if g(v, v) > 0 for...
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tensor product of modules over a ring Torsion-free module, in algebra See also Torsion-free (disambiguation) Analytic torsion (Reidemeister torsion,...
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mathematics, the nonmetricity tensor in differential geometry is the covariant derivative of the metric tensor. It is therefore a tensor field of order three....
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Hodge star operator (redirect from Dual tensor)
space L ( V , V ) {\displaystyle L(V,V)} is naturally isomorphic to the tensor product V ∗ ⊗ V ≅ V ⊗ V {\displaystyle V^{*}\!\!\otimes V\cong V\otimes...
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mathematical field of differential geometry, the Riemann curvature tensor or Riemann–Christoffel tensor (after Bernhard Riemann and Elwin Bruno Christoffel) is the...
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the tensor algebra of a vector space V, denoted T(V) or T•(V), is the algebra of tensors on V (of any rank) with multiplication being the tensor product...
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Moment of inertia (redirect from Moment of inertia tensor)
inertia tensor of a body calculated at its center of mass, and R {\displaystyle \mathbf {R} } be the displacement vector of the body. The inertia tensor of...
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electromagnetism, the electromagnetic tensor or electromagnetic field tensor (sometimes called the field strength tensor, Faraday tensor or Maxwell bivector) is a...
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mathematics, the modern component-free approach to the theory of a tensor views a tensor as an abstract object, expressing some definite type of multilinear...
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Levi-Civita symbol (redirect from Completly anti-symmetric tensor)
independent of any metric tensor and coordinate system. Also, the specific term "symbol" emphasizes that it is not a tensor because of how it transforms...
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antisymmetric part, the torsion tensor, as a variable in varying the action. In the resulting field equations, the torsion tensor is a homogeneous, linear...
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two vectors is sometimes called an elementary tensor or a decomposable tensor. The elementary tensors span V ⊗ W {\displaystyle V\otimes W} in the sense...
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manifold M {\displaystyle M} and the metric tensor is given as a covariant, second-degree, symmetric tensor on M {\displaystyle M} , conventionally denoted...
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connection and regarding its antisymmetric part, the torsion tensor, as a dynamical variable. Torsion naturally accounts for the quantum-mechanical, intrinsic...
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In mathematics and physics, a tensor field is a function assigning a tensor to each point of a region of a mathematical space (typically a Euclidean space...
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Covariant derivative (redirect from Tensor derivative)
fields) and to arbitrary tensor fields, in a unique way that ensures compatibility with the tensor product and trace operations (tensor contraction). Given...
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In mathematics, the tensor bundle of a manifold is the direct sum of all tensor products of the tangent bundle and the cotangent bundle of that manifold...
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In multilinear algebra, a tensor contraction is an operation on a tensor that arises from the canonical pairing of a vector space and its dual. In components...
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differential geometry, the Einstein tensor (named after Albert Einstein; also known as the trace-reversed Ricci tensor) is used to express the curvature...
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Kronecker delta (redirect from Kronecker tensor)
thought of as a tensor, and is written δ j i {\displaystyle \delta _{j}^{i}} . Sometimes the Kronecker delta is called the substitution tensor. In the study...
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various areas, including: Classical treatment of tensors Dyadic tensor Glossary of tensor theory Metric tensor Bra–ket notation Multilinear subspace learning...
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