Wikipedia:WikiProject Relativity

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[edit] Introduction

WikiProject Relativity is set up to better organize and present information in all articles related to the theories of Special and General relativity. We hope that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians to improve all relativity-related articles in order to make Wikipedia the premier online resource for relativity-related information for all who visit. In order to maintain a reasonable length of relativity articles (and avoid possibly unnecessary duplication), editors are encouraged to peruse the wikibooks:

[edit] Scope

The project's main aim is to concentrate solely on the classical aspects of relativity (i.e. no quantum mechanics), although some articles may mention aspects of quantum relativity.

[edit] Goals

More specific goals for the project are to:

  • Present an up-to-date and mainstream view of the status of special relativity and general relativity as physical theories.
  • Carefully assess articles on non-mainstream views of relativity to determine if they should be in Wikipedia.
  • Incorporate a variety of reliable references into relativity articles.
  • Improve the quality and quantity of relativity related articles, including improving special relativity and general relativity to featured article status.
  • Include more (and expand current) articles on actual experiments to test relativity.

[edit] Participation

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[edit] Noticeboard

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[edit] New Article Announcements

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[edit] Task list

See also Category:Relativity

The following list gives various tasks needed to be performed and issues to be addressed in articles. Articles should be listed alphabetically for ease of identification.

[edit] Top Priorities

[edit] Cleanup-Wikify

[edit] Missing Articles

Many articles on relativity are missing. The following lists many such articles. Some articles that may already exist (but with another name, or as part of another article) are indicated. Also, it may be better to merge some of these proposed articles (with each other or into other articles).


Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[edit] A

  • Affine frame
  • Allen E. Everett
  • André Avez
  • Asymptotically simple spacetime

[edit] B

  • Bach bars
  • Beck vacuums
  • Beck-Maxwell electrovacuums
  • Belinfante-Rosenfeld stress-energy tensor
  • Bell-Szekeres electrovacuum
  • Bel-Robinson tensor
  • Bertotti-Robinson electrovacuum
  • Bianchi dust models
  • Bondi mass - is briefly mentioned in Mass in general relativity but a separate article should exist (just as there exist articles for ADM energy and Komar mass)
  • Bondi radiation formalism
  • Brian O. J. Tupper

[edit] C

  • Cauchy characteristic matching
  • Cauchy evolution
  • Cauchy problem in general relativity
  • Chandrasekhar-Ferrari CPW vacuum
  • Characteristic evolution
  • Chazy-Curzon vacuum
  • Classification of spacetime singularities
  • Colliding plane waves
  • Comoving coordinate -- may be used in Continuum mechanics
  • Conformal compactification
  • Connection one-forms
  • Constraint equation
  • Coordinate singularity

[edit] D

  • Decomposition of metric tensor
  • Deficit angles
  • Donald M. Witt
  • Double Kerr vacuum

[edit] E

  • Edwin F. Taylor
  • Ehlers vacuums
  • Ehlers-Maxwell electrovacuums
  • EIH approximation
  • Einstein-Maxwell equations
  • Einstein static spacetime - exists as part of Static universe; is a separate article needed ?
  • Electromagnetic peeling theorem
  • Energy diagram
  • Eötvös torsion balance
  • Ernst-Maxwell electrovacuums
  • Ernst vacuums
  • Euclidean frame
  • Expansion scalar
  • Expansion tensor
  • Exterior region
  • Exterior solution
  • Extrinsic curvature - does this already exist in another form ? exists as part of curvature

[edit] F

  • Far fields in general relativity
  • Felix Pirani
  • Finkelstein diagram
  • Friedel-Starodubtsev action

[edit] G

  • Garfinkle-Melvin electrovacuum
  • Geodesic incompleteness - compare geodesic manifold
  • Geodesics of the Schwarzschild vacuum
  • Gödel dust
  • Gowdy vacuums
  • Gravitational entropy

[edit] H

  • Hans Brinkmann
  • Hans-Jürgen Schmidt
  • Hans Reissner
  • Homogeneous plane waves
  • Homogeneous spacetime
  • Hypersurface orthogonal - does this already exist in another form ?

[edit] I

  • Impulsive plane wave
  • Inertial drive
  • Initial value formulations
  • Initial value problem in vacuum relativity
  • Integration by parts in curved spacetimes
  • Interior region
  • Isolated object

[edit] J

  • Janis-Newman-Winacour scalar field solution
  • John L. Friedman
  • Jürgen Ehlers

[edit] K

  • Kasner dusts
  • Kantowski-Sachs dusts
  • Kerns-Wild vacuum
  • Kerr-dS lambdvacuum
  • Kerr-Newman-NUT-de Sitter solution
  • Kerr-Vaidya null dust
  • Kinnersley-Walker photon rocket
  • Komar mass-energy
  • Kristin Schleich

[edit] L

  • Light cone quantization
  • Linear frame
  • Linearized plane waves (general relativity)
  • Linearized theory of gravitational waves
  • Locally isometric - does this already exist in another form ?
  • Long range influence - does this already exist in another form ?
  • Lorentzian adjoint
  • Lluis Bel

[edit] M

  • Matching conditions
  • Maximal analytic extension
  • Melvin electrovacuum
  • Metric compatibility
  • Metric theories of gravitation
  • Monochromatic gravitational plane wave
  • Monochromatic circularly polarized gravitational plane wave
  • Monochromatic linearly polarized gravitational plane wave

[edit] N

  • Nariai lambdavacuum
  • Neugebauer-Meinel disk
  • Neugebauer-Meinel dust
  • Newman-Penrose tetrad
  • News (relativity)
  • Nonlocality of gravitational field energy-momentum
  • Novikov coordinates
  • Null curvature singularity
  • Null congruence
  • Null geodesic congruence
  • Null infinity
  • NUT vacuum

[edit] O

  • Oszváth-Schücking vacuum

[edit] P

  • Peeling theorem
  • Penrose-Khan vacuum
  • Penrose limit
  • Perturbation methods in general relativity
  • Peter G. Bergmann
  • Plane wave spacetimes
  • Polarization modes
  • Polhode motion
  • Potential tensor
  • Projection tensor
  • Prolate spheroidal chart
  • Pseudo-energy-momentum complex - exists as Stress-energy-momentum pseudotensor which is a redirection (incorrect) from Landau-Lifshitz pseudotensor. The redirection is wrong because the Landau-Lifshitz pseudotensor is only one of about a dozen of SEM pseudotensors (more properly called Stress-energy-momentum complexes) that describe the purely gravitational part of the SEM tensor (more details in the discussion to the article). Lantonov (talk) 09:33, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Q

  • Quadratic Lagrangian
  • Quadrupole radiation formula
  • Quasilocal mass-energy

[edit] R

  • Radiation-dominated
  • Radiation field
  • Radiation fluid
  • Rainer K. Sachs
  • Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter electrolambdavacuum
  • Relativistic multipole moments
  • Ricci identity - does this already exist in another form ?
  • Ricci spinors
  • Robinson-Trautman null dusts
  • Robinson-Trautman spacetimes
  • Rosen coordinates

[edit] S

  • Sandwich waves
  • Schwarzschild-de Sitter lambdavacuum
  • Schwarzschild fluid
  • Schwarzschild generating plane wave
  • Shear tensor
  • Simulation particle
  • Spacetime holonomy - compare the article holonomy
  • Spatial hyperslice - (Spacelike hypersurface is perhaps better)
  • Spin bundle
  • Spin-spin forces
  • Stanley Deser
  • Stationary limit surfaces
  • Stellar surface
  • Steve Carlip
  • Superenergy tensor - exists as Stress-energy tensor redirected from Stress-energy-momentum tensor. Stress-energy-momentum tensor is the most correct name of the article as most sources (textbooks) use this term.
  • Synchronous reference frame
  • Szekeres electrovacuums

[edit] T

  • Thomas A. Roman
  • Traced particle

[edit] V

  • Uniform electromagnetic plane wave

[edit] V

  • Vaidya null dust
  • Vorticity tensor

[edit] W

  • Wahlquist fluid
  • Wave of death
  • Weyl-Maxwell electrovacuums
  • Warp metrics
  • Weyl spinors
  • Weyl vacuums
  • Witten electrovacuums
  • Wolfgang Kundt
  • World tube

[edit] Y

  • YGKOW G1

[edit] Z

  • Zero-drag satellite

[edit] Expansion

[edit] Mergers

[edit] Split Articles

[edit] Discussions

[edit] References needed

[edit] Vandalism

[edit] POV and Disputed Articles

[edit] Mediation

[edit] Deletion

[edit] Sources

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