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- From: anderson@fermi.phys.ualberta.ca (Warren G. Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Covariant vs. Lie Derivative in Gen. Rel.?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.185320.11732@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:53:20 GMT
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- Ric Peregrino writes:
- > John also writes:
- >
- > >You misunderstood my point since I wasn't precise enough. To take the
- > >covariant derivative of a tensor A in a given direction v at a certain
- > >point x, all *v* needs to be is a tangent vector at x. I would write
- > >this covariant derivative as D_v A(x); in coordinates it's
- > >
- > > j
- > >v A (x)
- > > i;j
- >
- > I had misunderstood you. Still, why does v need to be a tangent vector?
- >
- > j k 1/2
- > v A /(v v ) , here can't v be any non-null vector?
- > i;j k
-
- I know you'd probably rather have John answer since he is a net.celeb :-),
- but if you'll permit me: The answer is just that *every* vector on the
- manifold is in the tangent space (ie. every vector is tangent to some curve).
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