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Weyl tensors

Weyl tensors is the plural of Weyl tensor.

Meaning of Weyl tensor

Noun

Weyl tensor (plural Weyl tensors)

  1. (differential geometry) A measure of the curvature of spacetime (or, more generally, a pseudo-Riemannian manifold), differing from the Riemann tensor in that it does not convey information on how the volume of the body changes, but only how its shape is distorted by the tidal force.

Questions about Weyl tensors

What is Weyl tensors the plural of?
Weyl tensors is the plural of Weyl tensor.

Words near Weyl tensors in the dictionary

  1. Weyl fermion
  2. Weyl fermions
  3. Weyl group
  4. Weyl groups
  5. Weyl tensor
  6. Weyl tensors
  7. Weyl's paradox
  8. weyleway
  9. Weylian
  10. Weyman
  11. Weymann

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