A space-time calculus based on pairs of null directions

DOI10.1063/1.1666410zbMath0875.53014OpenAlexW2098258064WikidataQ124988418 ScholiaQ124988418MaRDI QIDQ4338931

Robert Geroch, A. Held, Roger Penrose

Publication date: 2 June 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1666410

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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