Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Journal of Mathematical Physics

Volume

53

Issue

1

Publisher

American Institute of Physics

Publication Date

1-2012

First Page

013511-1

Last Page

013511-12

Abstract

DifferentialGeometry is a Maple software package which symbolically performs fundamental operations of calculus on manifolds, differential geometry, tensor calculus, spinor calculus, Lie algebras, Lie groups, transformation groups, jet spaces, and the variational calculus. These capabilities, combined with dramatic recent improvements in symbolic approaches to solving algebraic and differential equations, have allowed for development of powerful new tools for solving research problems in gravitation and field theory. The purpose of this paper is to describe some of these new tools and present some advanced applications involving: Killing vector fields and isometry groups, Killing tensors, algebraic classification of solutions of the Einstein equations, and symmetry reduction of field equations.

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Copyright 2012 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics.

The following article appeared in the Journal of Mathematical Physics and may be found at (http://jmp.aip.org/resource/1/jmapaq/v53/i1/p013511_s1?ver=pdfcov).


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