Sharp version of the Goldberg-Sachs theorem

DOI10.1007/s10231-010-0151-4zbMath1232.83013arXiv0911.3364MaRDI QIDQ540730

A. Rod Gover, Clyde Denson Hill, Paweł~ Nurowski

Publication date: 3 June 2011

Published in: Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.3364

zbMATH Keywords

Newman-Penrose formalism; Goldberg-Sachs theorem; algebraically special fields; complex metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83C05: Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

83C20: Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory

83C40: Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions

83C60: Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism

53B35: Local differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian structures

53B50: Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences

53B30: Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics

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