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Curvature tensor (disambiguation)
Curvature tensor
In
differential geometry
, the term
curvature tensor
may refer to:
the
Riemann curvature tensor
of a Riemannian manifold — see also
Curvature of Riemannian manifolds
;
the curvature of an
affine connection
or
covariant derivative
(on tensors);
the
curvature form
of an Ehresmann connection: see
Ehresmann connection
,
connection (principal bundle)
or
connection (vector bundle)
. It is one of the numbers that are important in the Einstein field equations.
See also
Tensor (disambiguation)