Weyl spinor and solution of massless free field equations

DOI10.1023/A:1003644511476MaRDI QIDQ1580717zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Antonio Zecca

Publication date 1 April 2001

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003644511476

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological modelsmassless field equationsNewman-Penrose spin-coefficientsWeyl spinor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Review text

The author studies massless field equations for arbitrary spin on a curved spacetime by considering in detail the cosmological models of Robertson-Walker (RW), and the Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi (LTB). The Newman-Penrose method of spin-coefficients is employed to formulate these equations, and the equations are explicitly solved for \(\operatorname {spin} 3/2\) and 2. It is argued that these results may be extended for the case of arbitrary spin. Contents includes: an introduction; the RW spacetime; the LTB spacetime and the Weyl spinor; the LTB spacetime and the \(s= 3/2\) equation; the LTB spacetime and the \(s=2\) equation; the LTB spacetime and generalizations.

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