Lanczos potential and perfect fluid spacetimes

DOI10.1007/S10773-011-0684-3zbMath1225.83072OpenAlexW2048289044MaRDI QIDQ644347

Zafar Ahsan, Mohd Bilal

Publication date: 4 November 2011

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-011-0684-3

zbMATH Keywords

Lanczos potentialNP formalismperfect fluid spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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