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February 2017 A new tensorial conservation law for Maxwell fields on the Kerr background
Lars Andersson, Thomas Bäckdahl, Pieter Blue
J. Differential Geom. 105(2): 163-176 (February 2017). DOI: 10.4310/jdg/1486522812

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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Lars Andersson. Thomas Bäckdahl. Pieter Blue. "A new tensorial conservation law for Maxwell fields on the Kerr background." J. Differential Geom. 105 (2) 163 - 176, February 2017. https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1486522812

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Received: 17 December 2014; Published: February 2017
First available in Project Euclid: 8 February 2017

zbMATH: 1361.83012
MathSciNet: MR3606727
Digital Object Identifier: 10.4310/jdg/1486522812

Rights: Copyright © 2017 Lehigh University

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