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A new tensorial conservation law for Maxwell fields on the Kerr background

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-02-10 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

A new, conserved, symmetric tensor field for a source-free Maxwell test field on a four-dimensional spacetime with a conformal Killing-Yano tensor, satisfying a certain compatibility condition, is introduced. In particular, this construction works for the Kerr spacetime.

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@article{arxiv.1412.2960,
  title  = {A new tensorial conservation law for Maxwell fields on the Kerr background},
  author = {Lars Andersson and Thomas Bäckdahl and Pieter Blue},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.2960},
  year   = {2017}
}

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7 pages