Meanings
- not comparablenatural sciencesin general relativity, describing the convention in which the metric tensor has a signature of (-,+,+,+).
... two possible choices for the spacetime metric (either the mostly minus metric used in these lectures or the mostly plus metric), ...
2018, Essig Rouven, Low Ian, Anticipating the Next Discoveries in Particle Physics: TASI 2016Proceedings of 2016 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 3563 more examples
I allow myself to be inconsistent in using the “mostly plus” metric in some contexts, but tried to emphasize this deviation properly.
2014, Kurt Sundermeyer, Symmetries in Fundamental Physics, Springer, →ISBN, page 77We 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).
2006, Dmitri Kazakov, G. Smadja, Particle Physics and Cosmology: The Interface: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Particle Physics and Cosmology: The Interface Cargèse, France, 4-16 August 2003, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 465We 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 ...
2000, The Journal of High Energy Physics: JHEP.. Paper archiveAntonyms: mostly minus
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivein general relativity, describing the convention in which the metric tensor has a signature of (-,+,+,+).
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