Topogravitic tensor

Topogravitic tensor

In general relativity, the topogravitic tensor is one of the three pieces of the Bel decomposition of the Riemann tensor.

The topogravitic tensor can be interpreted as representing the sectional curvatures for the spatial part of a frame field.


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