All transverse and TT tensors in flat spaces of any dimension

• Published in: General relativity and gravitation Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 1 - 11
• Main Author: Tafel, J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.03.2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Astronomy; Astrophysics and Cosmology; Classical and Quantum Gravitation; Conformal mapping; Differential Geometry; Gravity; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical and Computational Physics; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quantum Physics; Relativity Theory; Research Article; Tensors; Theoretical; Transverse tensors; TT tensors; Conformal method

We present general formulas for transverse and transverse-traceless (TT) symmetric tensors in flat spaces. TT tensors in conformally flat spaces can be obtained by means of a conformal transformation.