Return to home page

Date: 2022-02-18

Article ID: 71500

Infinitesimal Diffeomorphisms and the Metric Tensor

This short article derives how an infinitesimal diffeomorphism affects the metric tensor (via pullback) and how the result may be expressed in terms of covariant derivatives.

Download PDF (5 pages, 148 KB)

Revision history

2022-06-11 (updated references to other articles in this series to link to html abstract pages instead of to pdfs. Didn't change the version number/date)
2022-02-18 (added a cross-reference, fixed a spelling error)
2022-02-05 (first version)

www.cphysics.org

updated 2025-02-25