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Electric and Magnetic Weyl Tensors in Higher Dimensions

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Relativity and Gravitation

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Recent results on purely electric (PE) or magnetic (PM) spacetimes in \(n\) dimensions are summarized. These include: Weyl types; diagonalizability; conditions under which direct (or warped) products are PE/PM.

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    In the sense of the Weyl operator approach of [8] (see also [9]).

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Acknowledgments

M.O. acknowledges support from research plan RVO: 67985840 and research grant no P203/10/0749.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Stavanger, 4036, Stavanger, Norway

    S. Hervik

  2. Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Žitná 25, 115 67, Prague 1, Czech Republic

    M. Ortaggio

  3. Faculty of Applied Sciences TW16, Ghent University, Galglaan 2, 9000, Ghent, Belgium

    L. Wylleman

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Jiří Bičák

  2. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Tomáš Ledvinka

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Hervik, S., Ortaggio, M., Wylleman, L. (2014). Electric and Magnetic Weyl Tensors in Higher Dimensions. In: Bičák, J., Ledvinka, T. (eds) Relativity and Gravitation. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 157. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06761-2_38

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