On potentials for several classes of spinor and tensor fields in curved space-times

DOI10.1007/BF00758910zbMath0647.53056MaRDI QIDQ1104577

Reinhard Illge

Publication date: 1988

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00758910

zbMATH Keywords

vector potential; spinors; space-time; Maxwell field tensor; Weyl's conformal curvature tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83C99: General relativity

53C27: Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry

53B50: Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences

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