Asymptotic structure of spacetime and the Newman-Penrose formalism: a brief review

Authors

  • L.A. Gómez López
  • G.D. Quiroga

Keywords:

General relativity, asymptotically flat spacetime

Abstract

A brief review about the Newman-Penrose formalism and the asymptotic structure of the spacetime is given. The goal of this review is to describe the latest developments in these topics and make a summary of the most important articles published by Newman and collaborators. Additionally, we discuss some aspects of this approach, and we compute the spin coefficients and the Weyl scalars for a general stationary axisymmetric spacetimes in a tetrad basis different from that defined by the principal null geodesic directions.

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Published

2017-01-01

How to Cite

[1]
L. Gómez López and G. Quiroga, “Asymptotic structure of spacetime and the Newman-Penrose formalism: a brief review”, Rev. Mex. Fís., vol. 63, no. 3 May-Jun, pp. 275–0, Jan. 2017.

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Vol. 63 No. 3 May-Jun (2017): Revista Mexicana de Física

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