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Note on the torsion tensor

MAR 01, 2007

DOI: 10.1063/1.4809661

Steven Weinberg

Weinberg replies: Sorry, I still don’t get it. Is there any physical principle, such as a principle of invariance, that would require the Christoffel symbol to be accompanied by some specific additional tensor? Or that would forbid it? And if there is such a principle, does it have any other testable consequences?

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Steven Weinberg. (weinberg@physics.utexas.edu) University of Texas at Austin, US .

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Volume 60, Number 3

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