Surprising structures hiding in Penrose’s future null infinity

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/aa7344zbMath1367.83023arXiv1701.08406OpenAlexW2585318444MaRDI QIDQ5283559

Ezra T. Newman

Publication date: 24 July 2017

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.08406

zbMATH Keywords

stereographic coordinatesgravitational radiationBondi coordinatesPenrose's null infinity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Gravitational waves (83C35) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22)

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