A generalized Lie derivative and homothetic or Killing vectors in the Geroch-Held-Penrose formalism

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/7/308zbMath0944.83017OpenAlexW2004911345MaRDI QIDQ4954134

Garry Ludwig, S. Brian Edgar

Publication date: 24 September 2000

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/17/7/308

zbMATH Keywords

Newman-Penrose formalismconformally flatKilling equationstetradsGeroch-Held-Penrose formalismnull framepure radiation metricshomothetic equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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