scalar curvature in a sentence
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- where \ mathbf { R } is the Ricci tensor, \ mathbf { g } is the metric tensor and R is the scalar curvature.
- He is best known for his work in conformal geometry, his study of extremal metrics and his research on scalar curvature and Q-curvature.
- Kazdan Warner's result focuses attention on the question of which manifolds have a metric with positive scalar curvature, that being equivalent to property ( 1 ).
- Unlike the Riemann curvature tensor or the Ricci tensor, both of which can be defined for any affine connection, the scalar curvature requires a metric of some kind.
- For example, the Ricci tensor is a non-metric contraction of the Riemann curvature tensor, and the scalar curvature is the unique metric contraction of the Ricci tensor.
- In relativity, if translations mix up nontrivially with rotations, but the universe is still homogeneous and isotropic, the only option is that spacetime has a uniform scalar curvature.
- As a consequence, a metric-affine f ( R ) gravity, whose Lagrangian is an arbitrary function of a scalar curvature R of \ Gamma, is considered.
- where ?" " x " } } is the Riemannian norm in the tangent space at, is the divergence of at, and is the scalar curvature at.
- In 1997, together with Tom Ilmanen ( ETH Zurich ), he was able to prove the Riemannian manifold with positive scalar curvature, in the presence of a single black hole.
- For example, Gromov and Lawson showed that a closed manifold that admits a metric with sectional curvature d " 0, such as a torus, has no metric with positive scalar curvature.