On asymptotic flatness

DOI10.1007/BF00758554MaRDI QIDQ1158853zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Garry Ludwig

Publication date 1981

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00758554

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotically flatMinkowski spacenull infinityNUT metricPenrose's conformal techniquespace-timeWeyl tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

Cites work

• A definition of asymptotically Minkowskian space–times
• A space-time calculus based on pairs of null directions
• Behavior of Asymptotically Flat Empty Spaces
• Coordinate systems associated with asymptotically shear-free null congruences
• Empty-Space Generalization of the Schwarzschild Metric
• On algebraically special space-times with twisting rays
• On asymptotically flat spacetimes

Cited in

(3)

• A note on asymptotically flat spaces. II
• On solving Einstein's field equations in the Newman-Penrose formalism
• Asymptotic symmetry and the global structure of future null infinity

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