Linearized gravity in terms of differential forms
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2017-01-30 v2
Abstract
A technique to linearize gravitational field equations is developed in which the perturbation metric coefficients are treated as second rank, symmetric, 1-form fields belonging to the Minkowski background spacetime by using the exterior algebra of differential forms.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1612.05510,
title = {Linearized gravity in terms of differential forms},
author = {Ahmet Baykal and Tekin Dereli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.05510},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
17 pages, 56 references, typos fixed, published version