Thus another name for the Einstein tensor is the " trace-reversed Ricci tensor ".
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The left hand side, the Einstein tensor, can be thought of as a kind of average curvature.
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To get physical results, we can either turn to perturbation methods or linear approximations of the Einstein tensor.
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We have got about half the material we need to formulate the Einstein equations, namely, the Einstein tensor.
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Now that we have postulated the metric tensor, we have a lot of algebra to do in order to arrive at the Einstein tensor.
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Then, each set of tensor elements may be symbollically coded, until one finally has got symbollic expressions for all 4 x 4 = 16 components of the Einstein tensor.
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On the left-hand side is the Einstein tensor, a specific divergence-free combination of the Ricci tensor R _ { \ mu \ nu } and the metric.
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This implies that the curvature of space ( represented by the Einstein tensor ) is directly connected to the presence of matter and energy ( represented by the stress energy tensor ).
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In the special case of a locally inertial reference frame near a point, the first derivatives of the metric tensor vanish and the component form of the Einstein tensor is considerably simplified:
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The EFE describe how mass and energy ( as represented in the stress energy tensor ) are related to the curvature of space-time ( as represented in the Einstein tensor ).