Algebraic and differential Rainich conditions for symmetric trace-free tensors of higher rank

DOI10.1098/rspa.2004.1411zbMath1206.83109arXivgr-qc/0405004MaRDI QIDQ5427617

Göran Bergqvist, P. Lankinen

Publication date: 21 November 2007

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0405004

zbMATH Keywords

spinors; general relativity; Bel-Robinson tensor; superenergy tensors; Rainich conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83C40: Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions

83C60: Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism

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