Monday, October 31, 2016

general relativity - metric determinant and its partial and covariant derivative


question : abgϕ=agbϕ is true ?


because ag=0 so we can write gabϕ , but because metric determinant is not transfers like scalar, we can not write partial derivative instead of covariant derivative. what do think guys ?




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