The GHP formalism and a type N twisting vacuum metric with Killing vector

DOI10.1023/A:1026726219439MaRDI QIDQ1964547zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors A. Held

Publication date 20 February 2000

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

zbMATH Keywords

exact solutionsformalismPetrov type N solutionstwisting principle null direction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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