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A derivation of Weyl-Lanczos equations

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-08-13 v3

Abstract

The Lanczos potential for the Weyl tensor is derived from a quadratic curvature Lagrangian by making use of the exterior algebra of forms and the variational principles with constraints.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1801.03296,
  title  = {A derivation of Weyl-Lanczos equations},
  author = {Ahmet Baykal and Burak Ünal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.03296},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Published version, typos fixed, 14 pages, 42 references

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