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Old January 25th 07 posted to sci.physics.relativity
Igor
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Default Need help deriving the relation between the RICCI and EINSTEIN tensors



On Jan 24, 3:56 pm, "Koobee Wublee" wrote:
On Jan 24, 11:11 am, "Igor" wrote:

The Einstein tensor has zero covariant divergence. Ricci doesn't.


What does that mean?


If you don't know, look it up.

IIRC, the Einstein tensor is derivable from a contraction on the
Bianchi identities of the Riemann Curvature. [...]


Bullsh*t! The Einstein tensor can only be derived from the
Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian.


This is coming from the same guy that doesn't know how to transform a
domain.

Formal education is often a good cure for ignorance. Stupidity, on the
other hand, is incurable.

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