Meaning of mostly plus | Babel Free

Definitions

in general relativity, describing the convention in which the metric tensor has a signature of (-,+,+,+).

not-comparable

Examples

“... two possible choices for the spacetime metric (either the mostly minus metric used in these lectures or the mostly plus metric), ...”

“I allow⟳ myself to be inconsistent in using the “mostly plus” metric in some contexts, but tried to emphasize this deviation properly.”

“We use⟳ the mostly plus convention wherein at any space time point⟳ a locally inertial frame can be found in which g#95;#123;MN#125;#61;#92;eta#95;#123;MN#125;#92;equiv(-1,#43;1,#92;dots,#43;1).”

“We use⟳ a “mostly plus” metric and the conventions that indices m, n = 0 , 1 , 2 , . . . , 9 run⟳ over all of ten - dimensional space - time, M , v = 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 run⟳ over the 3 - brane world volume ...”

CEFR level