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Electric and magnetic parts of the Weyl tensor and spin coefficients
*A. H. HasmaniCorresponding authorAH_HASMANI@SPUVVN.EDUDEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICSSAEDAR PATEL UNIVERSITYVALLABH VIDYANAGAR, GUJARAT, 388120, INDIAView full profile → , Ravi PanchalDEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICSSAEDAR PATEL UNIVERSITYVALLABH VIDYANAGAR, GUJARAT, 388120, INDIAView full profile →
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- Received:
- 19 Aug 2016
- Accepted:
- 28 Dec 2016
- Published Online:
- 12 Jun 2017
- Article type:
- Article
- Language:
- EN
- Article no.:
- 1726037X.2017.1323417
- Pages:
- 37–49
Abstract
It is known that electric and magnetic parts of the Weyl tensor in General Relativity are analogous to that occur in the theory of electromagnetism. On the other hand, Newman-Penrose formalism provides a new dimension to the solutions and interpretations for the theory of relativity. Its significance in understanding spacetimes with some particular Petrov types, solutions with different material contents is well known. This paper provides spin coefficient form of electric and magnetic parts of the Weyl tensor, which leads to a new and efficient way for the computation of electric and magnetic parts of the Weyl tensor. It is observed that the computational time is greatly reduced when done using computer algebra system in comparison to that is done manually. This technique is elaborated in the example of Pure Radiation metric.
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83-0483-0883C6083C99
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