On geometry of congruences of null strings in 4-dimensional complex and real pseudo-Riemannian spaces

DOI10.1063/1.4994166zbMATH Open1380.53033arXiv1610.02498OpenAlexW3105205897WikidataQ115333116 ScholiaQ115333116MaRDI QIDQ4599462FDOQ4599462

Authors: Adam Chudecki 

Publication date: 2 January 2018

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

Abstract: 4-dimensional spaces equipped with 2-dimensional (complex holomorphic or real smooth) completely integrable distributions are considered. The integral manifolds of such distributions are totally null and totally geodesics 2-dimensional surfaces which are called the null strings. Properties of congruences (foliations) of such 2-surfaces are studied. Some relations between properties of congruences of null strings, Petrov-Penrose type of SD Weyl spinor and algebraic types of the traceless Ricci tensor are analyzed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02498

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zbMATH Keywords

congruencesintegrable distributionsnull stringstraceless Ricci tensorSD Weyl spinor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Value distribution theory in higher dimensions (32H30)

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