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Electric and magnetic Weyl tensors in higher dimensions

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2014-11-14 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Recent results on purely electric (PE) or magnetic (PM) spacetimes in n dimensions are summarized. These include: Weyl types; diagonalizability; conditions under which direct (or warped) products are PE/PM.

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@article{arxiv.1301.3691,
  title  = {Electric and magnetic Weyl tensors in higher dimensions},
  author = {Sigbjørn Hervik and Marcello Ortaggio and Lode Wylleman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.3691},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

4 pages; short summary of (parts of) arXiv:1203.3563. Proceedings of "Relativity and Gravitation - 100 Years after Einstein in Prague", Prague, June 25-29, 2012 (http://ae100prg.mff.cuni.cz/)