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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