Classification of image distortions in terms of Petrov types

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/18/15/318zbMath1056.83009arXivgr-qc/0012088OpenAlexW3104452505WikidataQ62005952 ScholiaQ62005952MaRDI QIDQ2752516

Volker Perlick, Thoralf Chrobok

Publication date: 2001

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0012088

zbMATH Keywords

observerNewman-Penrose formalismconformal curvature tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25)

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