Notes tagged notation | Parallel Transport

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OK everyone, back to work. Quantum Gravity is not going to figure itself out!

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In which signature is the “conservation of convention law” stated?

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‘I know, I’ll use Latex macros’ Now you have two problems (also see https://xkcd.com/208/ and https://xkcd.com/927/)

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hopefully you are using the maths convention — phi_^* for pullback since it is a “dual map”

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there are worse convention-violations in GR; signature, Riemann tensor, extrinsic curvature… comparatively this is not a big deal!

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because it is consistent with the index positions for objects being pulled-back, forms, vs objects being pushed-forward, vectors.