Conformal gravity, the Einstein equations and spaces of complex null geodesics

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/4/4/018zbMath0647.53057MaRDI QIDQ3791832

Lionel J. Mason, R. J. Baston

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/4/4/018

zbMATH Keywords

Weyl tensor; null geodesics; twistor; nonlinear graviton; complexified Minkowski space- time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83C05: Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

83C40: Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions

53B50: Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences

83C15: Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory

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