The Newman–Penrose Formalism

Zafar Ahsan ()
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Zafar Ahsan: Aligarh Muslim University, Department of Mathematics

Chapter Chapter 2 in The Potential of Fields in Einstein's Theory of Gravitation, 2019, pp 11-24 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The Newman–Penrose formalism (also known as spin-coefficient formalism) is a tetrad formalism with special choice of the basis vector. The beauty of this formalism, when it was first proposed by Newman and Penrose in 1962 (Newman and Penrose in J Math Phys 3:566–578, 1962 [13]), was precisely in their choice of a null basis. A detailed study of this formalism has been made here.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8976-4_2

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