• 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...
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  • Solutions of the Einstein field equations are metrics of spacetimes that result from solving the Einstein field equations (EFE) of general relativity....
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  • pseudo-Riemannian manifold. In general relativity, it occurs in the Einstein field equations for gravitation that describe spacetime curvature in a manner that...
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  • gravitational field is weak. The usage of linearized gravity is integral to the study of gravitational waves and weak-field gravitational lensing. The Einstein field...
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  • In general relativity, an exact solution is a solution of the Einstein field equations whose derivation does not invoke simplifying assumptions, though...
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    substitute them into Einstein's field equations and the resulting equations are described below. There are two independent Friedmann equations for modelling...
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  • the most general spherically symmetric vacuum solution of the Einstein field equations. A Schwarzschild black hole or static black hole is a black hole...
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  • Usually, field equations are postulated (like the Einstein field equations and the Schrödinger equation, which underlies all quantum field equations) or obtained...
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  • The Einstein–Hilbert action in general relativity is the action that yields the Einstein field equations through the stationary-action principle. With...
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  • gravitation whose defining feature is its use of the Einstein field equations. The solutions of the field equations are metric tensors which define the topology...
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    Exact Solutions to Einstein's Field Equations. Cambridge University Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-521-46136-8. "Einstein Field Equations (General Relativity)"...
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    Alcubierre drive (redirect from Warp field)
    Although the metric proposed by Alcubierre is consistent with the Einstein field equations, construction of such a drive is not necessarily possible. The...
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  • additional set of equations for spin and torsion, as well as the addition of extra spin-related terms in the Einstein field equations themselves. The theory...
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  • within r {\textstyle r} , is discussed below. The equation is derived by solving the Einstein equations for a general time-invariant, spherically symmetric...
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  • relativity, the Oppenheimer–Snyder model is a solution to the Einstein field equations based on the Schwarzschild metric describing the collapse of an...
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  • points in spacetime, and is based on a special solution of the Einstein field equations. A wormhole can be visualized as a tunnel with two ends at separate...
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  • A classical field theory is a physical theory that predicts how one or more fields in physics interact with matter through field equations, without considering...
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  • addition to a black hole region in the future, such a solution of the Einstein field equations has a white hole region in its past. This region does not exist...
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  • metric tensor g μ ν {\displaystyle g_{\mu \nu }} as the field, we obtain the Einstein field equations R μ ν − 1 2 R g μ ν + g μ ν Λ = 8 π G c 4 T μ ν . {\displaystyle...
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    is determined by the Einstein field equations themselves, not by a new law. Accordingly, Einstein proposed that the field equations would determine the...
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    non-gravitational force fields. This density and flux of energy and momentum are the sources of the gravitational field in the Einstein field equations of general...
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  • ləˈmɛtrə ... /) is a metric based on an exact solution of the Einstein field equations of general relativity. The metric describes a homogeneous, isotropic...
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  • The Kerr metric is an exact solution of the Einstein field equations of general relativity; these equations are highly non-linear, which makes exact solutions...
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    solving the Einstein field equations G=κT,{\displaystyle \mathbf {G} =\kappa \mathbf {T} ,} where T is the stress–energy tensor, G is the Einstein tensor,...
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  • differential equation given initial conditions. In the context of general relativity, it means the problem of finding solutions to Einstein's field equations - a...
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    astronomer. Schwarzschild provided the first exact solution to the Einstein field equations of general relativity, for the limited case of a single spherical...
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    equation. There are relatively few known exact solutions to the Einstein field equations. In order to find other solutions, there is an active field of...
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    equations and an approximation, valid under certain conditions, to the Einstein field equations for general relativity. Gravitomagnetism is a widely used term...
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  • after Albert Einstein because this condition is equivalent to saying that the metric is a solution of the vacuum Einstein field equations (with cosmological...
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    General relativity priority dispute (category Albert Einstein)
    Albert Einstein's discovery of the gravitational field equations of general relativity and David Hilbert's almost simultaneous derivation of the theory...
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