NP: A maple package for performing calculations in the Newman-Penrose formalism
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: NP: A maple package for performing calculations in the Newman-Penrose formalism
zbMATH Open document ID: 0613.53033
DOI: 10.1007/BF00762558
published in: General Relativity and Gravitation
publication date: 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: A symbolic algebra package is presented for performing computations in the Newman-Penrose formation. We illustrate the power of the package by using it to carry out a complex calculation that arises in the integration of the Petrov type-D vacuum field equations.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53B50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83-04
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83C05
zbMATH DE Number: 3992369
zbMATH Keywords: symbolic algebra
zbMATH Keywords: Newman-Penrose formation
zbMATH Keywords: vacuum field equations
author: Stephanie R. Czapor
author: Raymond G. Mclenaghan
describes a project that uses: Maple
MaRDI profile type: Publication
cites work: Orthogonal transitivity, invertibility and null geodesic separability in type D vacuum solutions of Einstein’s field equations with cosmological constant
cites work: Q3896182
cites work: An Approach to Gravitational Radiation by a Method of Spin Coefficients
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00762558
OpenAlex ID: W2048316189
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3992369