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A theorem on the structure of a complete set of conformal-like series of conserved quantities for massless fields

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We formulate a convenient general method for construating a complets set of comformal-like series of conservation laws of the n th order. As examples, we give all conformal-like series which are generated by symmetric tensors of the third and fourth ranks.

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Institute of Electron Physics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Uzhgorod. Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal. Vol. 49, No. 12, pp. 1707–1711, December, 1997.

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Simulik, V.M. A theorem on the structure of a complete set of conformal-like series of conserved quantities for massless fields. Ukr Math J 49, 1927–1931 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02513072

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