Lorentzian manifold
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concept
A Lorentzian manifold is a smooth manifold equipped with a metric tensor of signature \((-+\cdots+)\) (or its variants) that models spacetime in general relativity by distinguishing timelike, spacelike, and null directions.
Aliases (2)
- stationary axisymmetric spacetime ×2
- asymptotically flat spacetime ×1
Instances (4)
- Kerr metric ("stationary axisymmetric spacetime")
- Kerr–Newman black hole ("stationary axisymmetric spacetime")
- Minkowski space-time