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arxiv: gr-qc/0406111 · v1 · submitted 2004-06-28 · 🌀 gr-qc

On the degrees of freedom of a semi-Riemannian metric

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keywords metricsemi-riemanniandeformationdegreesformfreedomcomponentsconstant
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A semi-Riemannian metric in a n-manifold has n(n-1)/2 degrees of freedom, i.e. as many as the number of components of a differential 2-form. We prove that any semi-Riemannian metric can be obtained as a deformation of a constant curvature metric, this deformation being parametrized by a 2-form

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