paper

Deriving the Regge-Wheeler and Zerilli equations in the general static spherically-symmetric case with Mathematica and MathTensor

arXiv:gr-qc/9911101

Abstract

An efficient approach to tensor perturbation calculations by proper use of computer algebra methods is described, reaching the sufficient generality required for a comprehensive analysis of the Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordstroem metric stability.

6 pages, 3 figures