David Park
Oct12-04, 10:49 AM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no ,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>\nIn studying general relativity I have calculated all the Christoffel\nsymbols, Riemann and Einstein curvatures for the Schwarzschild, spherically\nsymmetric and FRW geometries from Appendix B (pp546-548) of James Hartle\'s\nGravitation text.\n\nI obtain agreement everywhere except for one component of the orthonormal\nRiemann curvature for the spherically symmetric geometry:\n\nR_(theta, phi, theta, phi) = (e^-lambda - 1)/r^2 (page 547)\n\nI obtain the opposite sign. I feel fairly confident that this is an error.\n\nI checked the errata for the book from the publisher and did not find it\ncontact from Addison Wesley.\n\nHas anyone else come across this as an error, or could anyone check it for\nme?\n\nDavid Park\ndjmp@earthlink.net\nhttp://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form"> View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>In studying general relativity I have calculated all the Christoffel
symbols, Riemann and Einstein curvatures for the Schwarzschild, spherically
symmetric and FRW geometries from Appendix B (pp546-548) of James Hartle's
Gravitation text.
I obtain agreement everywhere except for one component of the orthonormal
Riemann curvature for the spherically symmetric geometry:
R_(\theta, \phi, \theta, \phi) = (e^-\lambda - 1)/r^2 (page 547)
I obtain the opposite sign. I feel fairly confident that this is an error.
I checked the errata for the book from the publisher and did not find it
contact from Addison Wesley.
Has anyone else come across this as an error, or could anyone check it for
me?
David Park
djmp@earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
symbols, Riemann and Einstein curvatures for the Schwarzschild, spherically
symmetric and FRW geometries from Appendix B (pp546-548) of James Hartle's
Gravitation text.
I obtain agreement everywhere except for one component of the orthonormal
Riemann curvature for the spherically symmetric geometry:
R_(\theta, \phi, \theta, \phi) = (e^-\lambda - 1)/r^2 (page 547)
I obtain the opposite sign. I feel fairly confident that this is an error.
I checked the errata for the book from the publisher and did not find it
contact from Addison Wesley.
Has anyone else come across this as an error, or could anyone check it for
me?
David Park
djmp@earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/