Local existence of symmetric spinor potentials for symmetric (3,1)-spinors in Einstein space-times

DOI10.1016/S0393-0440(00)00055-3zbMath0979.83034WikidataQ126748056 ScholiaQ126748056MaRDI QIDQ5929711

Fredrik Andersson, S. Brian Edgar

Publication date: 30 January 2002

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

wave equation; Lanczos potential; spinors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81R25: Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory

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

83C15: Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory

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