Algebraically special, real alpha-geometries (Q720664): Difference between revisions

The authors continue their study of the algebraic classification of the Weyl spinor [the first author, J. Geom. Phys. 56, No.~10, 2093--2108 (2006; Zbl 1110.53016); the authors, Commun. Math. Phys. 282, No.~3, 577--623 (2008; Zbl 1148.53035)]. Their considerations are based on the notion of a neutral geometry based on a four-dimensional manifold admitting a metric tensor of neutral signature, and they employ a spinor description of those neutral geometries which admit a parallel distribution of totally null planes. They call such geometries Walker geometries since their properties were first studied by A. G. Walker in 1950. The contents include: Introduction; Conformal rescalings of the metric; Algebraically special real alpha-geometries; Appendix.