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

DOI10.12942/lrr-2012-1zbMath1316.83002WikidataQ47161663 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 flatness; spin-coefficient formalism; \(\mathcal H\)-space; shear-free congruences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83C57: Black holes

53Z05: Applications of differential geometry to physics

83-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory

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

83C10: Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory

83C25: Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory

83C22: Einstein-Maxwell equations

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