A spacetime calculus based on a single null direction

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/6/022MaRDI QIDQ4886915zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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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

zbMATH Keywords

GHP-formalismcompacted spin-coefficient calculusinvariance under null rotationstype \(N\) spacetimes

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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