A local potential for the Weyl tensor in all dimensions

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/21/22/L01MaRDI QIDQ4671169zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors José M. M. Senovilla, S. Brian Edgar

Publication date 23 April 2005

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0408071

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: In all dimensions and arbitrary signature, we demonstrate the existence of a new local potential -- a double (2,3)-form -- for the Weyl curvature tensor, and more generally for all tensors with the symmetry properties of the Weyl curvature tensor. The classical four-dimensional Lanczos potential for a Weyl tensor -- a double (2,1)-form -- is proven to be a particular case of the new potential: its double dual.

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