Contents


A Guide to Tetrads

in General Relativity

Ch. G. van Weert

Contents

Summary

I. Metric and Connection

II. Tetrad and Vierbein fields

III. Geometric Algebra

IV. Spin Connection

V. Parallel Transport

VI. Physical Geometry

VII. Fermi-Walker Transport

VIII. Schwarzschild solution

IX. Spherically symmetric spacetimes

X. Curvature

XI. Field Equations


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