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The main purpose of this chapter is to establish the field equations of general relativity, which couple the gravitational field (contained in the curvature of spacetime) with its sources. We start by discussing a tensor which effectively and concisely describes the sources, and follow that with a discussion of curvature, then bring these together in the field equations.
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Foster, J., Nightingale, J.D. (1995). Field equations and curvature. In: A Short Course in General Relativity. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3841-4_4
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