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

DOI10.1007/BF00758910zbMATH Open0647.53056OpenAlexW2089939805MaRDI QIDQ1104577FDOQ1104577

Authors: 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

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zbMATH Keywords

vector potentialspinorsspace-timeMaxwell field tensorWeyl's conformal curvature tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) General relativity (83C99)

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