The Lanczos potential for Weyl-candidate tensors exists only in four dimensions

DOI10.1023/A:1001951609641zbMath0982.53015arXivgr-qc/9711022MaRDI QIDQ5930584

S. Brian Edgar, A. Höglund

Publication date: 22 April 2001

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9711022

zbMATH Keywords

integrabilityLanczos potentialtensor identitiesWeyl tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects in vector and tensor analysis (53A45) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Local Riemannian geometry (53B20)

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