Relation To Other Invariants
Another possible invariant (which has been employed for example in writing the gravitational term of the Lagrangian for some higher-order gravity theories) is
where is the Weyl tensor, the conformal curvature tensor which is also the completely traceless part of the Riemann tensor. In dimensions this is related to the Kretschmann invariant by
where is the Ricci curvature tensor and is the Ricci scalar curvature (obtained by taking successive traces of the Riemann tensor).
The Kretschmann scalar and the Chern-Pontryagin scalar
where is the left dual of the Riemann tensor, are mathematically analogous (to some extent, physically analogous) to the familiar invariants of the electromagnetic field tensor
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