Geometry of flat-space null geodesic congruences

DOI10.1007/S10714-020-02719-6MaRDI QIDQ2226049zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eza T. Newman

Publication date 11 February 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-020-02719-6

zbMATH Keywords

null geodesic congruenceshear-freetwist

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Special relativity (83A05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Review text

The author studies the general explicit generic expression for null geodesic congruences. From each congruence the construction of a virtually unique form of the flat Lorentzian metric that is associated with the congruence is established. Also, the optical parameters for each congruence are calculated, and the important cases of the shear-free congruences are described in detail by the author. The obtained results are related to the asymptotically shear-free null geodesic congruences of asymptotically flat spacetimes and their physical implications.

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