Spin coefficients as Lanczos scalars: Underlying spinor relations

DOI10.1063/1.533285zbMath0981.83037MaRDI QIDQ2737985

Fredrik Andersson, S. Brian Edgar

Publication date: 30 August 2001

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.533285

zbMATH Keywords

spin coefficients; Weyl spinor; Lanczos scalars

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C50: Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics

83C60: Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism

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