Saturday, 20 September 2014

homework and exercises - Ricci tensor for a 3-sphere without Math packets


Let's have the metric for a 3-sphere: dl2=R2(dψ2+sin2(ψ)(dθ2+sin2(θ)dφ2)).

I tried to calculate Riemann or Ricci tensor's components, but I got problems with it.


In the beginning, I got an expressions for Christoffel's symbols: Γiii=12giiigii=0,


Γiji=12giijgii,


Γkll=12gkkkgll,



Γklj=Γklkδkj+Γkjkδkl+Γkjjδjl=0.


The Ricci curvature must be Rlj=2R2glj.

But when I use definition of Ricci tensor,


R(3)lj=kΓkljlΓλjλ+ΓkjlΓσkσΓklσΓσjk,

I can't associate an expression (if I didn't make the mistakes)


R(3)lj=jΓjlj+lΓljl+kΓkllδljlΓkjkΓkjkΓjlj+ΓklkΓljl+ΓσkσΓkllδljΓkjkΓklkΓljlΓjljΓlklΓkllδljΓjllΓljjΓkllΓlkl=


=jΓjlj+lΓljl+kΓkllδljlΓkjkΓkjkΓjlj+ΓklkΓljl+ΓσkσΓkllδljΓkjkΓklkΓljlΓjlj2ΓlklΓkllδljΓjllΓljj,

where there is a summation only on k,σ, with an expression for the metric tensor.


Maybe, there are some hints, which can help?




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