NP: A maple package for performing calculations in the Newman-Penrose formalism

DOI10.1007/BF00762558zbMath0613.53033OpenAlexW2048316189MaRDI QIDQ1819385

Stephanie R. Czapor, Raymond G. Mclenaghan

Publication date: 1987

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00762558

zbMATH Keywords

symbolic algebravacuum field equationsNewman-Penrose formation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-04)

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Uses Software

• Maple

Cites Work

• An Approach to Gravitational Radiation by a Method of Spin Coefficients
• Orthogonal transitivity, invertibility and null geodesic separability in type D vacuum solutions of Einstein’s field equations with cosmological constant
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