Null geodesic congruences, asymptotically-flat spacetimes and their physical interpretation

DOI10.12942/lrr-2012-1zbMath1316.83002OpenAlexW2160425582WikidataQ47161663 ScholiaQ47161663MaRDI QIDQ5919775

Ezra T. Newman, Carlos N. Kozameh, Timothy M. Adamo

Publication date: 14 July 2015

Published in: Living Reviews in Relativity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.12942/lrr-2012-1

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic flatnessspin-coefficient formalism\(\mathcal H\)-spaceshear-free congruences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22)

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