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Newman-Penrose Formalism and Electric and Magnetic Parts of Weyl Tensor
A.H. Hasmaniahhasmani@gmail.comDepartment of MathematicsSardar Patel UniversityVallabh Vidyanagar, IndiaView full profile → , M.T. JoshiDepartment of MathematicsSardar Patel UniversityVallabh Vidyanagar, IndiaView full profile →
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- Published Online:
- 03 Jun 2013
- Article type:
- Original Articles
- Language:
- EN
- Article no.:
- 1726037X.2008.10698548
- Pages:
- 89–94
Abstract
In Newman-Penrose formalism, the ten independent components of the Weyl tensor can be expressed in terms of five complex scalars Ψundefined (r = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4). By a suitable choice of the tetrad, we have expressed these scalars in terms of the electric part E and magnetic part H of the Weyl tensor. The results thus obtained are then applied to Gödel spacetime.
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