• field of differential geometry, the Riemann curvature tensor or Riemann–Christoffel tensor (after Bernhard Riemann and Elwin Bruno Christoffel) is the...
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  • Like the Riemann curvature tensor, the Weyl tensor expresses the tidal force that a body feels when moving along a geodesic. The Weyl tensor differs from...
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  • the Ricci tensor contains all of the information which in higher dimensions is encoded by the more complicated Riemann curvature tensor. In part, this...
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    given point. Riemann introduced an abstract and rigorous way to define curvature for these manifolds, now known as the Riemann curvature tensor. Similar notions...
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  • the full Riemann curvature tensor. Alternatively, in a coordinate-free notation one may use Riem for the Riemann tensor, Ric for the Ricci tensor and R for...
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    (electromagnetic tensor, Maxwell tensor, permittivity, magnetic susceptibility, ...), general relativity (stress–energy tensor, curvature tensor, ...), and...
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  • differential geometry, the curvature form describes curvature of a connection on a principal bundle. The Riemann curvature tensor in Riemannian geometry can...
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  • A a tensor field on M. Many mathematical structures called "tensors" are also tensor fields. For example, the Riemann curvature tensor is a tensor field...
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  • metric (and the associated curvature tensors) to the stress–energy tensor T μ ν {\displaystyle T_{\mu \nu }} . This tensor equation is a complicated set...
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  • way of measuring the curvature of a manifold is with an object called the Riemann (curvature) tensor. This tensor measures curvature by use of an affine...
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