caa a22 4500 467887608 CHVBK 20180406152739.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10714-006-0264-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10714-006-0264-7 Ramos Jairzinho Physics Department, Drexel University, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut Differential operators in terms of Clebsch-Gordon (C-G) coefficients and the wave equation of massless tensor fields [Elektronische Daten] [Jairzinho Ramos] The quantum theory of angular momentum affords a treatment of tensors and vectors in a spherical basis. By using this theory we define the tensor differential operators: divergence, curl and gradient which act on a tensor of any rank, in terms of C-G coefficients. With these definitions we obtain a matrix representation and useful properties for those operators. An interesting application of this formalism is to find the wave equation of a tensor of any rank in a linear theory. This provides a new common way to look at the wave equations associated with both Maxwell's equations and the Maxwell-like equations for the linearized Weyl curvature tensor in gravitoelectromagnetism describing gravitational radiation on a Minkowski spacetime background. Springer-Verlag, 2006 Differential operators nationallicence C-G coefficients nationallicence Gravito-electric and gravito-magnetic fields nationallicence Wave equation nationallicence Gravitoelectromagnetism nationallicence General Relativity and Gravitation Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 38/5(2006-05-01), 773-783 0001-7701 38:5<773 2006 38 10714 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-006-0264-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-006-0264-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ramos Jairzinho Physics Department, Drexel University, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- General Relativity and Gravitation Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 38/5(2006-05-01), 773-783 0001-7701 38:5<773 2006 38 10714 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer