5 - Differential Geometry
from Part II - General Relativity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2021
Summary
Introduction to vectors in curved spaces, the exterior calculus, tensor densities, affine connections and Christoffel symbols, parallel transport and covariant derivatives, metric spaces, and the theory of curvature.
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- Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity , pp. 100 - 131Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022