Eur. Phys. J. Plus (2018) 133: 146
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2018-11995-x

Regular Article

A derivation of Weyl-Lanczos equations

Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University, Merkez Yerleşke, Bor yolu üzeri, 51240, Niğde, Turkey

^* e-mail: abaykal@ohu.edu.tr

Received: 10 January 2018
Accepted: 14 March 2018
Published online: 13 April 2018

Abstract

The Lanczos potential for the Weyl tensor is derived from a quadratic curvature Lagrangian by making use of the exterior algebra of forms and the variational principles with constraints.