Tensors and Relativity: Chapter 8
The Ricci Tensor
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we obtain:
Unless or
these components vanish. Also
. Using the above expressions let us work out the non- zero components of the Ricci tensor
. For example
so
This simplifies to
The other components of the Ricci tensor are [ Assignment 7 ]: