vierbein

English

Etymology

From German vierbeinig (“four-legged”).

Noun

vierbein (plural vierbeins)

1. (physics) Synonym of tetrad
   • 2015, F. T. Falciano, G. Sadovski, R. F. Sobreiro, A. A. Tomaz, “Cosmology from a gauge induced gravity”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     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.