Definition
The Einstein tensor is a rank 2 tensor defined over Riemannian manifolds. In index-free notation it is defined as
where is the Ricci tensor, is the metric tensor and is the scalar curvature. In component form, the previous equation reads as
The Einstein tensor is symmetric
and, like the stress–energy tensor, divergenceless
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