All order covariant tubular expansion
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2016-08-22 v5 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We consider tubular neighborhood of an arbitrary submanifold embedded in a (pseudo-)Riemannian manifold. This can be described by Fermi normal coordinates (FNC) satisfying certain conditions as described by Florides and Synge in \cite{FS}. By generalizing the work of Muller {\it et al} in \cite{muller} on Riemann normal coordinate expansion, we derive all order FNC expansion of vielbein in this neighborhood with closed form expressions for the curvature expansion coefficients. Our result is shown to be consistent with certain integral theorem for the metric proved in \cite{FS}.
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@article{arxiv.1203.1151,
title = {All order covariant tubular expansion},
author = {Partha Mukhopadhyay},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.1151},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
27 pages. Corrected an error in a class of coefficients resulting from a typo. Integral theorem and all other results remain unchanged