A spacetime calculus based on a single null direction
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Publication:4886915
DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/6/022zbMath0860.53058OpenAlexW2073004197MaRDI QIDQ4886915
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Publication date: 21 April 1997
Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/4d525827ac8433bffd6e31c7564f138aaa9b9787
GHP-formalismcompacted spin-coefficient calculusinvariance under null rotationstype \(N\) spacetimes
Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)
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