Published October 1980 | Version v1
Journal article

Space-times with geodesic, shearfree, twistfree, nonexpanding rays

Creators

  • 1. Department of Mathematics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G1

Description

The Kundt class of metrics containing geodesic rays with vanishing divergence, shear and curl is obtained for more general Ricci tensors using the standard Newman--Penrose formalism. These solutions are then rederived using Penrose's conformal technique, thereby clarifying their asymptotic behavior

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
J. Math. Phys. (N.Y.)
Journal Volume
21
Journal Issue
10
Series
J. Math. Phys. (N.Y.).
Journal Page Range
2543-2548
ISSN
0022-2488

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
12578583
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ASYMPTOTIC SOLUTIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; GEODESICS; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; METRICS; RICCI TENSOR; SPACE-TIME
Descriptors DEC
EQUATIONS; TENSORS