The use of matlab platform to compte some geometric quantities of 3-manifold sol3

Document Type : Research Paper

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Department of Mathematics and Applications, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, 56199-11367, Ardabil, Iran.

Abstract

In this paper we use MATLAB platform [7, 8] to calculate some quantities of 3-manifold sol3 like Christoffel symbols, curvatures, Einstein tensor and plot the geodesics of this space.

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