Show that the Weyl curvature tensor (25.48) has vanishing contraction on all its slots and has the
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Show that the Weyl curvature tensor (25.48) has vanishing contraction on all its slots and has the same symmetries as Riemann: Eqs. (25.45). From these properties, show that Weyl has just 10 independent components. Write the Riemann tensor in terms of the Weyl tensor, the Ricci tensor, and the scalar curvature.
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To show that the Weyl curvature tensor C has vanishing contraction on all its slots we need to show that contracting any pair of indices with their respective upper and lower indices results in zero I...View the full answer
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