The Sparling form and its relationship to the spin-coefficient formalism (Q753165)
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The Sparling form and its relationship to the spin-coefficient formalism (English)
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1990
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The author shows how the Sparling form (introduced in an unpublished 1982 preprint of G. A. J. Sparling) can be expressed in terms of the Newman- Penrose spin-coefficient formalism. The principal result is an expression for the energy-momentum pseudotensor in terms of spin-coefficients.
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Sparling form
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Newman-Penrose
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spin-coefficient formalism
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energy- momentum pseudotensor
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