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Example 1.
First create a 3 dimensional manifold and show that the Weyl tensor of a randomly defined metric is zero.
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Calculate the Christoffel symbols.
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Calculate the curvature tensor.
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Calculate the Weyl tensor.
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Example 3.
Define a 4 dimensional manifold and a metric .
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Calculate the Weyl tensor directly from the metric g
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We check the various properties of the Weyl tensor. First we check that it is skew-symmetric in its 1st and 2nd indices, and also in its 3rd and 4th indices.
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Check the 1st Bianchi identity.
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Check that W2 is trace-free on the indices 1 and 3.
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Finally we check the conformal invariance of the Weyl tensor by computing the Weyl tensor W3 for g3 = and comparing W3 with
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