Curvature without metric

Author(s)
Peter Christian Aichelburg, Herbert Balasin
Abstract

We derive the Penrose data for half-flat pp-waves and extend his original construction for the Weyl spinor of plane waves in terms of these data.

Organisation(s)
Gravitational Physics
External organisation(s)
Technische Universität Wien
Journal
AVS Quantum Science
Volume
4
No. of pages
3
ISSN
2639-0213
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1116/5.0074308
Publication date
06-2022
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103028 Theory of relativity, 101006 Differential geometry
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics, Computer Networks and Communications, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/curvature-without-metric(5d1ce2a8-4fae-44ed-95aa-e6c858dffbb9).html