vierbein

English

Etymology

From German vierbeinig (“four-legged”).

Noun

vierbein (plural vierbeins)

(physics) Synonym of tetrad
- 2015, F. T. Falciano, G. Sadovski, R. F. Sobreiro, A. A. Tomaz, “Cosmology from a gauge induced gravity”, in arXiv‎:
  As a consequence, the $SO(m,n)$ algebra is deformed into a Lorentz algebra with the emergency of the local Lorentz symmetries and the gauge fields being identified with a vierbein and a spin connection.

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