Four-dimensional tensor identities of low order for the Weyl and Ricci tensors

DOI10.1023/A:1026601013194zbMATH Open0981.53011MaRDI QIDQ1807385FDOQ1807385

Authors: S. Brian Edgar 

Publication date: 18 November 1999

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

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zbMATH Keywords

Lovelock's identityRicci-like tensorstensor identityWeyl-like tensors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects in vector and tensor analysis (53A45) Local Riemannian geometry (53B20) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27)

Cites Work

• A complete set of Riemann invariants
• The identities of the algebraic invariants of the four-dimensional Riemann tensor. II
• A new spinor identity and the vanishing of certain Riemann tensor invariants

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• The determination of all syzygies for the dependent polynomial invariants of the Riemann tensor. I. Pure Ricci and pure Weyl invariants
• A second-order identity for the Riemann tensor and applications
• The Riemann-Lovelock curvature tensor
• Proofs of existence of local potentials for trace-free symmetric 2-forms using dimensionally dependent identities
• The identities of the algebraic invariants of the four-dimensional Riemann tensor. II
• A new Weyl-like tensor of geometric origin
• Dimensionally dependent tensor identities by double antisymmetrization
• A note on spinor form of Lovelock differential identity
• An application of Lovelock's theorem

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