bitensor en · NOUN
Etymology
From bi- + tensor.
Meanings
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A tensorial function of pairs of points.
This requires a careful analysis of how changes of the spin supplementary condition are related to shifts of the body's representative worldline and transformations of the body's multipole moments, and we employ bitensor calculus for a precise framing of this analysis.
2016, Justin Vines, Daniela Kunst, Jan Steinhoff, Tanja Hinderer, “Canonical Hamiltonian for an extended test body in curved spacetime: To quadratic order in spin”, in arXiv:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| bitensors | Number=Plur | lexicographic |