Geometric algebra techniques for general relativity

Annals of Physics

Volumn 311, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 459-502

  Francis, Matthew R ^a   Kosowsky, Arthur ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clifford algebras; General relativity; Solution techniques

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442674978     PISSN: 00034916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2003.12.009     Document Type: Article

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37. This program was written by M.R. Francis in Maple (http://www.maplesoft.com/), using Mark Ashdown's GA package, which can be downloaded at http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/clifford/software/GA/. The complete calculation on the author's home computer took just over one minute.