Algebraic classification of the gravitational field
Abstract
We rewrite the tensorial method of Peres [1] for the Petrov classification in terms of the Newman-Penrose formalism [2]. It results an algorithm computationally simpler that the one proposed by D'Inverno-Russell Clark [3].
- Publication:
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General Relativity and Gravitation
- Pub Date:
- March 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s10714-005-0047-6
- Bibcode:
- 2005GReGr..37..627A
- Keywords:
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- Petrov classification;
- Null direction