2 papers
gr-qc2025
Creating a Universe from Nothing as an Alternative to the Cosmological Principle
Philip D. Mannheim, Daniel A. Norman, Tianye Liu
In the cosmological Robertson-Walker geometry required of the cosmological principle both the Weyl tensor and the Bach tensor $W^{μν}=[2\nabla_κ\nabla_λ-R_{λκ}…
math-ph2025
Properties of associated Legendre conical functions
Daniel A. Norman, Philip D. Mannheim, Tianye Liu
We present some new properties of associated Legendre conical functions of the first and second kind, and . In particular w…