1. Mar 28, 2007 #1

   Stas

   

   How many degrees of freedom has Riemann Tensor in general D dimensions and how it can be calculated?

    

   Stas, Mar 28, 2007
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3. Mar 28, 2007 #2

   cristo

   

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   This page should answer your questions: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RiemannTensor.html

    

   cristo, Mar 28, 2007
4. Mar 28, 2007 #3

   Stas

   

   thank u!!!

    

   Stas, Mar 28, 2007
5. Mar 28, 2007 #4

   arunma

   

   If I remember correctly, the Riemann tensor has 24 independent components. The rest can be calculated by knowing what happens when you flip the indices around. of course, there's no reason you'd want to compute the rest, since there are quite a few of them.

    

   arunma, Mar 28, 2007
6. Nov 16, 2009 #5

   maidens

   

   http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~houghton/TEACHING/442/notes/22Oct2002c2.ps

    

   maidens, Nov 16, 2009

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