The non-existence of a Lanczos potential for the Weyl curvature tensor in dimensions \(n\geq 7\)

DOI10.1023/A:1021143703760zbMath1019.83013arXivgr-qc/0202081MaRDI QIDQ1863125

S. Brian Edgar, A. Höglund

Publication date: 11 March 2003

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0202081

zbMATH Keywords

Lanczos potentialWeyl curvature tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05)

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