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Linearized general relativity and the Lanczos potential

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Recently, there has been a revival of interest in the Lanczos potential of the Weyl conformal tensor. Previous work by Novello and Neto has been done with the linearized Lanczos potential as a model of a spin-2 field, which depends on a massless limit of the field. In this paper, we look at an action based on a massless potential, and show that it is classically equivalent to the linearized regime of general relativity, without reference to a massless limit.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9910082,
  title  = {Linearized general relativity and the Lanczos potential},
  author = {Daniel Cartin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9910082},
  year   = {2007}
}

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5 pages, LaTeX 2e