A spinor reformulation of the null surface treatment of GR

DOI10.1063/1.1288250zbMath0977.83055OpenAlexW2091330828MaRDI QIDQ2738188

Simonetta Frittelli, Ezra T. Newman, Lionel J. Mason

Publication date: 30 August 2001

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1288250

zbMATH Keywords

null surface formulationconformal Lorentzian metricGRnull surface formulation of GR

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Cites Work

• The theory of caustics and wave front singularities with physical applications
• On the dynamics of characteristic surfaces
• GR via characteristic surfaces
• Linearized Einstein theory via null surfaces
• The vacuum and Bach equations in terms of light cone cuts

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