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General relativity and the application of algebraic manipulative systems

By D. Barton, J. P. Fitch
Communications of the ACM, August 1971, Vol. 14 No. 8, Pages 542-547
10.1145/362637.362650
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The paper describes some applications of symbolic algebra systems to problems of general relativity including the derivation of the field equations, the Petrov classification of a metric, and the solution of the field equations in the presence of matter in a simple case. Attention is drawn to the strictly algebraic difficulties encountered in this work.

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