The Lanczos potential as a spin-2 field

2003/11/20 by Daniel Cartin, Cartin, Daniel
Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Theoretical and Computational Physics #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0311185

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Abstract

The Lanczos potential L_abc acts as a tensor potential for the spin-2 field strength W_abcd in an role similar to that of the vector potential A_a for the Maxwell tensor F_ab. After some general considerations inspired by the example of electromagnetism, we consider the linear spin-2 theory and a Born-Infeld type action in terms of L_abc.

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