Debye potentials for Maxwell and Dirac fields from a generalization of the Killing-Yano equation

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Benn, IM
Charlton, P
Kress, J
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[1] Department of Mathematics, University of Newcastle, Callaghan
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10.1063/1.532140
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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By using conformal Killing-Yano tensors, and their generalizations, we obtain scalar potentials for both the source-free Maxwell and massless Dirac equations. For each of these equations we construct, from conformal Killing-Yano tensors, symmetry operators that map any solution to another. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics.
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