Structural equations for Killing tensors of arbitrary rank

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 115, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 316-329

  Wolf, Thomas ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer algebra; Conservation laws; Killing tensors

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

COMPUTER ALGEBRA; KILLING TENSORS;

TENSORS;

EID: 0032477137     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0010-4655(98)00123-4     Document Type: Article

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