The Newman-Penrose formalism for Riemannian 3-manifolds

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2015.03.009MaRDI QIDQ2352275zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Amir B. Aazami

Publication date 30 June 2015

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.7216

zbMATH Keywords

differential geometryNewman-Penrose formalismvector flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: We adapt the Newman-Penrose formalism in general relativity to the setting of three-dimensional Riemannian geometry, and prove the following results. Given a Riemannian 3-manifold without boundary and a smooth unit vector field $$ with geodesic flow, if an integral curve of $$ is hypersurface-orthogonal at a point, then it is so at every point along that curve. Furthermore, if $$ is complete, hypersurface-orthogonal, and satisfies $$, then its divergence must be nonnegative. As an application, we show that if the Riemannian 3-manifold is closed and a unit length $$ with geodesic flow satisfies $$, then $$ cannot be hypersurface-orthogonal, thus recovering a recent result. Turning next to scalar curvature, we derive an evolution equation for the scalar curvature in terms of unit vector fields $$ that satisfy the condition $$. When the scalar curvature is a nonzero constant, we show that a hypersurface-orthogonal unit vector field $$ satisfies $$ if and only if it is a Killing vector field.

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