Published October 1976
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Journal article
Principal null directions without spinors
Creators
- 1. Department of Mathematics, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts 02181
Description
The method used by Petrov to obtain the first classification of vacuum space--times has since been overshadowed by methods which yield a finer classification based on principal null directions. It is shown that this finer classification can be expressed in Petrov's terms and a simple algorithm is obtained for finding all repeated principal null directions by matrix methods
Additional details
Additional titles
- Augmented title (English)
- matrix methods
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.522822;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Journal Volume
- 17
- Journal Issue
- 10
- Series
- J. Math. Phys. (N.Y.).
- Journal Page Range
- 1793-1796
- ISSN
- 0022-2488
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 8284614
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATIONS; GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY; MATRICES; METRICS; RIEMANN SPACE; SPACE-TIME; SPINORS
- Descriptors DEC
- EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; SPACE
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