A weighted de Rham operator acting on arbitrary tensor fields and their local potentials

Journal of Geometry and Physics

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2135-2162

  Brian Edgar, S ^a   Senovilla, José M M ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Curvature tensors; de Rham Laplacian; Local potentials; Tensor valued differential forms

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745739757     PISSN: 03930440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomphys.2005.11.011     Document Type: Article

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