论文信息 - On the algebraic invariants of the four-dimensional Riemann tensor

On the algebraic invariants of the four-dimensional Riemann tensor

Several authors have given explicit choices for the fourteen independent invariants of the Riemann tensor. In this comment it is shown that, in some cases, the set of invariants given is actually dependent.

G. Sneddon

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