The GHP connection: a metric connection with torsion determined by a pair of null directions

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/7/10/004zbMath0704.53079OpenAlexW2094806562MaRDI QIDQ3483994

Gerald Harnett

Publication date: 1990

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/7/10/004

zbMATH Keywords

natural connectionprincipal fibre bundleGeroch-Held-Penrose formalismoptical scalarsGHP connectionSachs equationspin-vector bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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