Integration in the GHP formalism. I: A coordinate approach with applications to twisting type \(N\) spaces

DOI10.1007/BF02104837zbMath0857.53060MaRDI QIDQ1919248

Garry Ludwig, S. Brian Edgar

Publication date: 9 March 1997

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

zbMATH Keywords

Geroch-Held-Penrose formalismcompacted spin coefficient formalismintegration of the field equationstwisting type \(N\) solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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