Existence of Lanczos potentials and superpotentials for the Weyl spinor/tensor

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/18/12/304zbMath0980.83033OpenAlexW2104584152MaRDI QIDQ2760464

Fredrik Andersson, S. Brian Edgar

Publication date: 2 January 2002

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/3764b04a4ef95f723e1c65a14371090df9a11a4d

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein spacetimesspinor potentialLanczos potentials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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