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	Metric signature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The signature of a metric tensor (or more generally a nondegenerate symmetric bilinear form, thought of as quadratic form) is the number of positive and negative eigenvalues of the metric.
		A Riemannian metric is a metric with a (positive) definite signature.
		A Lorentzian metric is one with signature (p, 1) (or sometimes (1, q)).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metric_signature (204 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The main disputable point is the gauge status of Einstein's gravitational field, which is a metric or tetrad field, while gauge fields represent connections on fiber bundles.
		Metric gravitational fields appear in such a theory as the consequence of this spontaneous symmetry breaking and have the nature of Goldstone type fields.
		The Lorentz, GL(4,R) and Poincaré gauge theories of gravitation are analyzed from these points of view, and some outlooks of the gauge treatment of gravitation, e.g., as the affine-metric theory, are discussed.
	webcenter.ru /~sardan/pr.html (158 words)

	A renewed theory of electrodynamics in the framework of a Dirac-ether.
		This electromagnetic metric as a space-time with rotational properties seems necessary as a background for the development of an electromagnetic theory on the level of the potentials.
		This is an approach of unification of the theory of the metric and electrodynamics in the opposite direction than the one engaged in by Einstein and his followers, who tried to mould electrodynamics into the curved metric of the General Theory of Relativity.
		The Lorentz transformations in the eight-vector formalism as used in the two examples are exactly equivalent in outcomes with the usual six- and four-vector methods.
	home.tiscali.nl /physis/deHaasPapers/PIRTpaper/deHaasPIRT.html (6635 words)

	metric2lorentz.nb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		To get the metric equation, one simply adds in a "side" of length icdt, where c is the speed of light, dt is a time interval measured with respect to the same "map frame of motion" whose yardsticks measured the sides (e.g.
		One cool thing about the metric equation is that, by tweaking it's "unit coefficients" only slightly, we can make spacetime curve and cause cool stuff like terrestrial and fl-hole gravity.
		Ironically, therefore, a principle of extremal aging is also hidden in the metric equation, whereby the straight path between two events takes the most (not the least) time on the part of the traveler.
	www.umsl.edu /~fraundor/anyspeed/metric2lorentz (800 words)

	3.1 Metric theories of gravity and the strong equivalence principle
		Brans-Dicke theory and its generalizations are purely dynamical theories; the field equation for the metric involves the scalar field (as well as the matter as source), and that for the scalar field involves the metric.
		By discussing metric theories of gravity from this broad point of view, it is possible to draw some general conclusions about the nature of gravity in different metric theories, conclusions that are reminiscent of the Einstein equivalence principle, but that are subsumed under the name ``strong equivalence principle''.
		But because the metric is coupled directly or indirectly to the other fields of the theory, its structure and evolution will be influenced by those fields, and in particular by the boundary values taken on by those fields far from the local system.
	relativity.livingreviews.org /Articles/lrr-2001-4/node7.html (1523 words)

	Einstein-Hilbert action - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In general relativity, the action is assumed to be a functional only of the metric, i.e.
		Some extensions of general relativity assume the metric and connection to be independent, however, and vary with respect to both independently.
		The variation of the Riemann curvature tensor with respect to the metric is
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Einstein-Hilbert_action (436 words)

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		SRT found 4-d metric tensor: before we knew only that the proper length of the straight line between the points A(x=0,y=0) and B(x, y) is sqrt(x2+y2).
		It is fair to say: "after an arbitrary Lorentz transformation"; or we can add here: "after an arbitrary translation of coordinates." It looks almost the same criteria as arbitrary transformation of coordinates that was used by Riemann.
		Lorentz transformation is not a number (or supernumber) to represent some physical reality.
	wbabin.net /physics/keilman4.htm (2375 words)

	Replacing Einstein's SR and GR: A Unified Classical Theory of the Electric, Magnetic and Gravitational Forces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The work of Lorentz is corrected and completed to produce a logically consistent relativity based on the existence of a local background though which light travels at a constant speed.
		Lorentz's relativity was closely related to his theory of the electromagnetic mass of the electron.
		Lorentz's moving electron was surrounded by a magnetic field containing its kinetic energy and the work that had to be done to create it resulted in its inertia.
	users.powernet.co.uk /bearsoft/Paper7.html (9716 words)

	Classical Unified Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Abstract Gravity is a metric theory, electromagnetism is not.
		The unified metric has the same coefficients for a Taylor series expansion for a weak field as the Schwarzschild metric of general relativity up to post-Newtonian accuracy.
		In a subsequent calculation for a metric, it was found that the unified force needed to be normalized to the magnitude of the interval:
	world.std.com /~sweetser/arch/unified_force.2002.01.13/unified_force.html (3121 words)

	PHY423B CORE LESSONS & OUTPUT SKILLS, Summer '99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Define or explain: (a) Riemannian space and metric, (b) indefinite metric and signature, (c) geodesics, (d) geodesic separation (define and derive formula for), (e) curvature (for 2-dim and n-dim surfaces), (f) geodesic deviation, (g) isometric spaces.
		Establish the form of the Schwarzschild metric by: (a) writing down and justifying the general form of the metric exterior to a spherically symmetric static mass distribution subject to the constraints that (i) θ and φ are the usual spherical coordinate angles; (ii) r
		is the square of the radial coordinate, equal to the proper area of a sphere concentric with the mass, divided by 4π; (iii) the metric is stationary, i.e.
	physnet2.pa.msu.edu /home/courses/423B/423Bcorelessons.html (1326 words)

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		When one attempts to quantize the classical electromagnetic field in a realtivistically covariant way in the Lorentz gauge, it has been well known that the Lorentz condition is incompatible with commutation relations between electromagnetic fields.
		Mathews, Seetharaman and Simon discussed the necessity of the indefinite metric on the basis of the structure of a little group of the Poincare group.
		Haller and Landovitz discussed the relation between GSC and the adiabatic asymptotic conditions as t \rightarrow \infty, and they showed that the formalism in the Feynman gauge and that in the Coulomb gauge are equivalent to each other if one applies Bleuler's subsidiary condition to them without adiabatic switching, though their claim was misleading.
	www.physics.rutgers.edu /~zrwan/QED-historical/QED_Ref3.1.html (490 words)

	Spacetime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A basic assumption of relativity is that coordinate transformations have to leave intervals invariant.
		The spacetime intervals on a manifold define a pseudo-metric called the Lorentz metric.
		This metric is very similar to distance in Euclidean space.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Spacetime (817 words)

	Aspects of a theory of gravity with a privileged reference frame
		For example, the Robertson-Walker space-time metric of an expanding universe distinguishes a particular class of ‘comoving observers’- that is, comoving with the expansion commonly assumed to explain, as a Doppler effect, the observed red-shift of the spectra emitted by distant galaxies.
		According to the investigated theory, no singularity occurs during this collapse, neither for the metric nor even for the energy density, because the implosion would stop within finite time (for freely falling clocks and for remote clocks as well) and would be followed by an explosion [3].
		In the studied non-linear theory, the coincidence between ‘absolute’ space (or time) metric and physical space (or time) measurements is found only in the first approximation.
	geo.hmg.inpg.fr /~arminjon/ETHER4.htm (3712 words)

	Physics 675, Fall 2004
		The determinant of the metric is needed to obtain the proper volume element for integration (consider a diagonal metric to convince yourself that this is plausible).
		In general relativistic cosmology, the metric is assumed to have a foliation (layering) by spacelike slices each of which is homogeneous and isotropic.
		When the metric is independent of a given coordinate, the corresponding component of the wavevector is conserved along the null geodesic light rays.
	www.physics.umd.edu /grt/taj/675a/notes.html (10113 words)

	Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity: Incomplete Working Notes
		Lorentz transforms are the space-time analog of rotations in
		This is a coordinate rearrangement: the coordinates of B and E are used as-is in the Faraday 2-form.
		Since we have a differential-geometric metric (the Lorentz metric), we can use the standard definition of Hodge duality to define the Maxwell 2-form as Hodge-dual to the Faraday 2-form.
	www.zaimoni.com /Notes_GR_QM.htm (2834 words)

	GiNaC: tensor.cpp File Reference
		A metric tensor with one covariant and one contravariant index is equivalent to the delta tensor.
		The Lorentz metric is a symmetric tensor with a matrix representation of diag(1,-1,-1,...) (negative signature, the default) or diag(-1,1,1,...) (positive signature).
		The indices must be of class spinidx or a subclass and have a dimension of 2.
	www.ginac.de /reference/tensor_8cpp.html (342 words)

	Aspects of a theory of gravity with a privileged reference frame
		This framework is first recalled, underlining the possibility to uniquely define a space metric and a local time in any given reference frame, hence to define velocity and momentum in terms of the local space and time standards.
		It depends on the variation of the metric with space and time, and it involves the velocity of the particle.
		Thus, at least as long as the geodesic formulation of motion has not been derived from a generalization of Newton's second law, one is enforced to give a physical status to space-time in GR.
	geo.hmg.inpg.fr /arminjon/ETHER5.htm (3772 words)

	Space-time
		Thus, the most general transformation between two inertial frames consists of a Lorentz transformation in the standard configuration plus a translation (this includes a translation in time) and a rotation of the coordinate axes.
		The resulting transformation is called a general Lorentz transformation, as opposed to a Lorentz transformation in the standard configuration which will henceforth be termed a standard Lorentz transformation.
		Note that space-time cannot be regarded as a straightforward generalization of Euclidian 3-space to four dimensions, with time as the fourth dimension.
	farside.ph.utexas.edu /teaching/jk1/lectures/node13.html (766 words)

	Short Cuts by Alcubieerre Bubbles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A space-ship could do the same provided it were possible to construct a spacetime containing a 'stream' that carries the object in question at a sufficiently high velocity with respect to some point outside the 'stream'.
		This is achieved by using the metric suggested by Alcubierre.
		The spatial part of this metric hence describes a 'bubble' with radius R and walls of the width s.
	www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de /~marco/poster_sc/a.html (429 words)

	On a Classical Aspect of the Term "Symmetry"
		Thus the transformation properties of the electromagnetic field were not to be derived from Maxwell's equations, as Hendrik Lorentz did, but rather were consequences of relativistic invariance, and indeed largely dictate the form of Maxwell's equations.
		The coordinate system remains the same, the metric tensor remains the same, but the transformed real numbers are the coordinates of another point P1 in the same space.
		The Lorentz transformations follow from the Lorentz metric tensor as the Lorentz metric tensor follows from the Maxwell's equations.
	wbabin.net /yuri/keilman7.htm (2324 words)

	General relativistic quantum mechanics
		On a Lorentz-manifold, a mathematically intrinsic spin-theory (meaning that the spin-operators and spin-fields themselves are tensors) is constructed (for arbitrary spin), the reason being that this is what you need in order to compute the generalization of the Einstein equation in general relativity, for particles with spin.
		Some of the corresponding (total) metric variations are also described, and from those, one can see that it gives rise to stress-energy tensors with positive statistical energy-densities, the latter being necessary in order to create a quantum field theory.
		This spin-theory only exists, in its completeness, in a four-dimensional Lorentz metric space, since it depends on the fact that the square of the Hodge star operator is minus one when acting on two-forms.
	epubl.luth.se /1400-4003/1993-1996/93-18 (120 words)

	Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		F. Giannoni, A. Masiello: On the existence of geodesics on stationary Lorentz manifolds with convex boundary, J. Func.
		A. Masiello: On the existence of a timelike trajectory for a Lorentzian metric, Proc.
		A. Masiello, L. Pisani: Existence of a time-like periodic trajectory for a time-dependent Lorentz metric, Ann.
	80-www.ams.org.library.uor.edu /proc/1999-127-10/S0002-9939-99-04979-5/home.html (511 words)

	Andrew Chamblin at Work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Explicitly, we took the bulk to be a {\it Vaidya-AdS} metric, which describes the gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric null dust fluid in Anti-de Sitter spacetime.
		Consequently, given a non-singular Lorentz metric g on M we may select a future-directed vector V at each point of M, so that we obtain a non-vanishing vector field V on M. The converse is also true: Given a non-vanishing vector field we may recover a non-singular Lorentz structure.
		Thus, any attempt to study the space of Lorentz metrics on a manifold M will automatically involve the kink number, given that we would at least need to coarse grain Lorentz metrics into homotopy equivalence classes.
	web.mit.edu /chamblin/www/work.html (4831 words)

	Eotvos and Novel Equivalence Principle Tests
		Metric theories of gravitation[1] (General Relativity) postulate the Equivalence Principle (EP): local bodies in vacuum free fall identically regardless of composition and internal structure, requiring spacetime curvature.
		Metric theories of gravitation are falsified at the postulate level if extreme mirror-image chiral or parity pair bodies are not Eötvös experiment nulls.
		Metric theories of gravitation postulate[64] spacetime is a Lorentzian manifold, test particles pursue space-time geodesics (all sufficiently small bodies subject only to gravitational interactions and starting with the same initial positions and velocities follow identical spacetime trajectories), and the Strong Equivalence Principle obtains.
	www.mazepath.com /uncleal/eotvos.htm (7763 words)

	Re: General relativity & Frame bundle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Then, we define a metric connection to be a connection on the orthonormal frame bundle (in the above sense).
		And it turns out that when we use a metric connection, the derived form of parallel transport is isometric.
		Upon variation, this Lagrangian will give you the correct pseudo-Riemann metric, that is. I think the action is S = \int \sqrt{g} R \mu, with \sqrt{g} being the square root of the determinant of the metric (well, the absolute value of...), R the scalar curvature and \mu the volume form.
	www.lns.cornell.edu /spr/2003-06/msg0052228.html (461 words)

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		In general relativity spacetime is modelled by a four-dimensional manifold with a Lorentz metric defined on it.
		The metric and matter fields together are supposed to satisfy the Einstein equations.
		For that manifold is the domain of definition of the metric and so the metric is automatically regular there.
	www.aei-potsdam.mpg.de /~rendall/cc.html (1314 words)

	Feynman on Gravity
		It is not at all obvious that if we make a Lorentz boost that this separation into an instantaneous near field part and a delayed radiative far field part will persist in every local inertial frame the way it does in quantum electrodynamics at least when the boost is parallel to the propagation direction.
		In general relativity theory matter-energy is a source of the metric gravity field, but in Feynman's perturbative approach, he starts with the matter-energy shaping the metric with no back-reaction of the metric on the matter-energy.
		This leaves 20 independent conditions on the second derivatives of the metric tensor which describe the actual local curvature at the point xo as measured by the tidal forces that are due to real inhomogeneities in the metric.
	www.qedcorp.com /pcr/pcr/feynman/feyngrav.html (12007 words)

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