Nonexistence of the Lanczos potential for the Riemann tensor in higher dimensions
Abstract
The existing refutal, in four-dimensional spacetimes, of the conjecture that the Lanczos tensor can be used as a potential for the Riemann tensor, is derived in a much simpler manner which is valid for dimension n ≥ 4 and any signature.
- Publication:
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General Relativity and Gravitation
- Pub Date:
- March 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF02108015
- Bibcode:
- 1994GReGr..26..329E