General Relativity: An Introduction for Physicists · Problem 9.2

The Schwarzschild geometry — Hobson, Efstathiou & Lasenby

Physics · ricci-tensor-static-isotropic-metric

Problem

For the general static isotropic metric (9.4), show that the off-diagonal components of the Ricci tensor

R_{\mu\nu}

are zero and that the diagonal components are given by (9.8--9.11).