I have compared Maxima's internal calculation (on the left)
to our explicit calculation (on the right) which is attached.
Our Gamma subscripts are in reverse order of Maxima's mcs
which also have +1 added to each subcript. The values agree
in all but five cases (marked XXX below) where Maxima mcs has
zero and our Gamma has an expression. With Sean Carroll and Dr.
Evans having checked them carefully by hand and our calculating
them explicitly with Maxima, we have some confidence in the Gammas.
However it could be that Viktor's solution is not the same problem
as ours due to a difference in coordinate order or the metric
specification. Does anything stand out to you?
I have found ctensor.mac and the christof(dis) function. I will try
to figure out what is going on.
Viktor Toth's program.
load(ctensor);
depends([a,b],[t,r]);
ct_coords:[t,r,O,P];
lg:ident(4);
lg[1,1]:-exp(2*a);
lg[2,2]:exp(2*b);
lg[3,3]:r2;
lg[4,4]:r2*sin(O)2;
cmetric();
ug;
christof(mcs);
RESULTS:
(%i11) christof(mcs);
da
(%t11) mcs = -- == Gamma[0,0,0]
1,1,1 dt
da 2a-2b
(%t12) mcs = -- %e == Gamma[1,0,0]
1,1,2 dr
da
(%t13) mcs = -- == Gamma[0,1,0]
1,2,1 dr
db
(%t14) mcs = -- == Gamma[1,1,0]
1,2,2 dt
XXX mcs = 0 <> Gamma[0,0,1] = da/dt
2,1,1
XXX mcs = 0 <> Gamma[1,0,1] = db/dt
2,1,2
2b-2a db
(%t15) mcs = %e -- == Gamma[0,1,1]
2,2,1 dt
db
(%t16) mcs = -- == Gamma[1,1,1]
2,2,2 dr
1
(%t17) mcs = - == Gamma[2,2,1]
2,3,3 r
1
(%t18) mcs = - == Gamma[3,3,1]
2,4,4 r
XXX mcs = 0 <> Gamma[2,1,2] = 1/r
3,2,3
-2b
(%t19) mcs = - %e r == Gamma[1,2,2]
3,3,2
cos(O)
(%t20) mcs = ------ == Gamma[3,3,2];
3,4,4 sin(O)
XXX mcs = 0 <> Gamma[3,1,3] = 1/r
4,2,4
XXX mcs = 0 <> Gamma[3,2,3] = cos(O)/sin(O)
4,3,4
-2b
(%t21) mcs = -%e r sin (O) == Gamma[1,3,3]
4,4,2
(%t22) mcs = - cos(O) sin(O) == Gamma[2,3,3]
4,4,3
All the rest of the zeroes agree.
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