Adjective
in general relativity, describing the convention in which the metric tensor has a signature of (-,+,+,+).
Usage- not-comparable
- Antonyms
- mostly minus
- Examples
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... two possible choices for the spacetime metric (either the mostly minus metric used in these lectures or the mostly plus metric), ...
I allow myself to be inconsistent in using the “mostly plus” metric in some contexts, but tried to emphasize this deviation properly.
More examples (2)
We 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).
We 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 ...