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

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 s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Gómez López, L.A., Quiroga, G.D.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Revista Mexicana de Física
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs2.rmf.smf.mx:article/343
Acceso en línea:https://rmf.smf.mx/ojs/index.php/rmf/article/view/343
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:General relativity
asymptotically flat spacetime
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Sumario: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.