A spacetime calculus based on a single null direction
DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/6/022zbMATH Open0860.53058OpenAlexW2073004197MaRDI QIDQ4886915FDOQ4886915
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Publication date: 21 April 1997
Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/4d525827ac8433bffd6e31c7564f138aaa9b9787
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