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Graduate How Is the Weyl Tensor Derived?
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Graduate Higher Order Tensor: Learn Calculation Rules & Get Info
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Graduate What are the expressions for CURL in spherical coordinates?
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Graduate Building Invariants from Vector, Levi-Civita Symbol
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Graduate Understanding the Contravariant Derivative: A Tangential and Normal Perspective
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Graduate Bilinear forms and wedge products
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Graduate What is the Spacetime Metric and its Describing Equations in Layman's Terms?
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Graduate What is the relationship between k-forms and l-forms on an m-manifold?
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Graduate Solving Ricci Tensor Problem: Schwarzschild Metric
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Graduate Help with paper on gradient descent evolution of surfaces
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Graduate Exact sequence & meaning of a corollary?
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Graduate Is a Second Order Symmetric Tensor Always Represented by a Symmetric Matrix?
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Graduate How Do Changes in Curvilinear Coordinates Affect Unit Vectors?
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Graduate Bonnet Transformation: Explaining the Alpha-Helix to Beta Barrel Transition
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Graduate Can Geodesics Be Inflectional in Euclidean Space?
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Graduate How to get the normal bivector to a surface?
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Graduate Please me to understand Einstein notation and permutations
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Graduate WHY there is no scalar equation for a line in three dimensions ?
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Graduate What is the Equation of the Ellipse in 3D for Magnetic Field Visualization?
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Graduate Proving Stokes Theorem: The Intuition and Application
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Graduate From Christoffel symbols to connection 1-forms
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Graduate That given a continuous surface, contour lines exist
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Graduate Connection coefficients entering differential operators
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Graduate Bivectors/Trivectors: How to imagine?
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Graduate Can the Laplacian of a Scalar Field be Considered as its Curvature?
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Graduate Riemann-Tensor have in n- dimensional space?
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Graduate Is the 'distance function' the same as the 'metric' in physics texts?
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Graduate Geodesics and the Action Principle
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Graduate Original motivation of differential geometry
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Graduate Hypervolume of a Hypercube in Minkowski Space
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Graduate Need help with Christoffel symbols? Here are some examples to practice with!
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Graduate Killing Vector Fields: Generating Local Transformations?
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Graduate Tensor products and tensor algebras
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Graduate Recommendations for diff geom. textbook
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Graduate Uncovering the Mystery of Covariant Derivatives: Sean Carroll's Perspective
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Graduate Differential of lin. transformation between vector spaces
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Graduate Helmholtz Theorem on Decomposition of Vectors
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Graduate Searching for a point in space
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Graduate Understanding RP^n and CP^n: Geometric Projective Spaces
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Graduate Simply Connected and Fundamental Group
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Graduate Differential geometry recommendations
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Graduate Why do two lines have to be 'great circles' on a sphere?
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Graduate How to FULLY understand a definition?
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Graduate Tensor Product: Basis for Higher Order Tensors and Its Proof
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Graduate Which Book on Riemannian Geometry Balances Intuition and Minimal Prerequisites?
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Graduate The tensor product and its motivation
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Graduate Calculating Metric/Metric Tensor for Curved Spaces
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Graduate Lie dragging a vector around the ellipse
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Graduate Kronecker Delta: A Relativity and Tensor Explanation
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Graduate How Can I Prove This Metric is Flat?
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Graduate How do I calculate the volume of a hypercylindrical shape in n dimensions?
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Graduate From Simple Groups to Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate Lie vs Covariant Derivative: Intuitive Understanding
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Graduate Hello,I am doing a project on Riemann, but. .
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Graduate Understanding the Metric Tensor in General Relativity
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Graduate How Can Infinite Subcovers Exist in Compact Spaces Without Contradiction?
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Graduate What are the general equations of geodesics on a cylinder's surface?
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Graduate Deriving a Small Circle Equation in Spherical Coordinates: Any Pointers?
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Graduate Definition of differentiability on a manifold
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Graduate Can a Surface in R³ Have This Prescribed Riemannian Metric?
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Graduate Understanding Tensor Components: The Role of Index Order in Vector Spaces
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Graduate Covariant and Contravariant: What Are the Differences in Differential Geometry?
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Graduate Curl of Function: Constant Magnitude or Way Off?
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Graduate Linear transition maps on manifolds
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Graduate Where Am I Going Wrong with Kahler Metric Computations?
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Graduate Proving the Mapping f:S^2\times \mathbb{R} \rightarrow S^2
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Graduate What Does \partial_{[\mu}\omega_{\nu]} Mean?
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Graduate Covariant and Contravariant Rank-2 Tensors
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Graduate Which Textbook Best Teaches Tensor Analysis for General Relativity?
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Graduate Pointcare Conjecture - Grigory Perelman's Proof
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Graduate Lagrange equations with constraints
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Graduate Proving Sphere has Minimal Surface Area for Volume
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Graduate Proving Cartan's Identity: Tips & Hints
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Graduate Differential Forms & the Star Operator
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Graduate Spherical-esque Coordiante System
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Graduate Help on Contraction: Proving i_v(\omega_1 \wedge \omega_2)
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Graduate Proving Decomposability of Forms in Spivak's Book (Vol. 1, Chap. 7)
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Graduate My Solutions to Tensors and Manifolds
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Graduate How Do Complex Eigenvalues Affect Numerical Solutions of PDE Systems?
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Graduate Book on tensor symmetry, geometries, surfaces
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Graduate How Do Isometries of the n-Torus Relate to R^n?
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Graduate Noncoordinate basis vector fields
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Graduate Hypersurfaces with vanishing extrinsic curvature
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Graduate Who is the author of Differential Forms book?
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Graduate Theorem of Curves in higher dimensions
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Graduate Levi-civita permutation tensor, and kroneker delta
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Graduate Index Transformation: Understanding Notation & Index Rules
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Graduate Tangent space, derivation defifinition
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Graduate Understanding Index Notation in Tensor Calculus?
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Graduate Gradients of Vectors and Dyadic Products
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Graduate Proving Wedge Product Property for Alternating Tensors
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Graduate Does Pi Change in Curved Space Geometry?
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Graduate Is Einstein Notation Used Consistently in Tensor Analysis on R³?
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Graduate How Can I Visualize the Exterior Derivative 'd' in Differential Geometry?
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Graduate Possible Generalization of Cross Product?
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Graduate Inner product Pythagoras theorem
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Graduate Principle Bundles: Right or Left Action?
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Graduate Spivak calculus on manifolds solutions? (someone asked this b4 and got ignored)
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Graduate Angle Between Planes: Is i1+cos(rotation)*i2 Correct?
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Graduate Vector Fields and Vector Bundles
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